Re: OS X replacement for Script Scheduler
Re: OS X replacement for Script Scheduler
- Subject: Re: OS X replacement for Script Scheduler
- From: "Donald S. Hall" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 21:42:10 -0600
Paul,
As you say, a good scripter could write their own equivalent of Script
Timer, especially if they have a special purpose as you describe and don't
need more general functionality. It depends on how much they think their
time is worth. The registration fee for Script Timer is only $10, which
isn't too many minutes worth of a programmer's time.
Don
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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.
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And there you have it. There's no particular reason for scripters to pay for
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Script Timer to do the same thing with a custom icon (which is all it is)
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when you can write your own. Non-scripters, sure, need someone else to do it
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for them. I did my own stay-open in OS 9, where I needed a script to ping
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the network every few minutes to keep it alive so that I could access my
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computer via TCP/IP from another location. In OS X, such a script is not
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necessary since OS X keeps the network alive all by itself. But that's what
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I'd do if I needed it.
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Paul Berkowitz
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Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
http://www.theboss.net/appsmore
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