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Re: acceptable hardloop

  • Subject: Re: acceptable hardloop
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:41:46 +0200
At 23:33 +0200 16/09/01, Andrew Simpson wrote:
>
>Is the code below an acceptable way to code a delay while waiting for a file
>to appear in a directory???
>
>--code--
>
>repeat while 1 is equal to 1
> tell application "Finder"
>
>[snip]

A sure way would be to test it. The problem is, you are not letting much
time to Finder. What I would do is, adding an "update" line (check the
Finder's dict for "update").

HTH
Emmanuel

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