Re: OS X replacement for Script Scheduler
Re: OS X replacement for Script Scheduler
- Subject: Re: OS X replacement for Script Scheduler
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 08:53:07 -0700
On 5/9/02 8:19 AM, "Charles Arthur" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Surely an easier way to time scripts' running would be to have them as a
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stay-open which runs every minute or so, and then have a "do shell script"
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in the idle handler to check the time and date (using date() - it's very
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flexible, down to seconds, up to centuries) and if it's the right time and
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date, do your execution handler and then quit. Or not quit - just sit there
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in the background.
And there you have it. There's no particular reason for scripters to pay for
Script Timer to do the same thing with a custom icon (which is all it is)
when you can write your own. Non-scripters, sure, need someone else to do it
for them. I did my own stay-open in OS 9, where I needed a script to ping
the network every few minutes to keep it alive so that I could access my
computer via TCP/IP from another location. In OS X, such a script is not
necessary since OS X keeps the network alive all by itself. But that's what
I'd do if I needed it.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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