Re: Is there a "wake up" detector?
Re: Is there a "wake up" detector?
- Subject: Re: Is there a "wake up" detector?
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 17:14:29 +1000
on 01/10/01 16:23, Marc K. Myers at email@hidden wrote:
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I have a script with an idle handler that speaks the time to me at a
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settable interval (on the hour, on the half hour, on the quarter hour,
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etc.) and it works quite well UNLESS I put the machine to sleep.
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Apparently the "clock" the system uses to wake up an idled script stops
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along with everything else when you sleep the machine. When it wakes up
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again the countdown picks up where it left off, but now it's pointed
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towards the wrong time.
Have you tried using iDo Script Scheduler instead? It can be found on the
Mac OS Install CD. I used to use it to say the time every hour.
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Matthew Smith