Re: Is it possible to set up an 'instant' idle handler
Re: Is it possible to set up an 'instant' idle handler
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to set up an 'instant' idle handler
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:00:21 -0700
On 10/7/02 11:29 AM, "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Someone (I think it was Paul Berkowitz) pointed out if you don't put in
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a return statement an idle handler will repeat "instantly". I have
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found through experimentation that this is not true.
Definitely not me. I don't mind if you want to praise me for something I
didn't say :-) but if you're going to criticize by name, it would be better
if you spent a few seconds finding the message in the same thread to see who
the author was.
Anyway. What I said was to call the idle handler from the main script by:
idle
That will call the idle handler which will start immediately. Don't put
anything else in the top-level main script. Do everything (including calling
other handlers) from the idle handler.
If an idle handler does not have a return statement it uses the default
return of 30 seconds. The least you can return is 1 (second). I was amused
to see a script somewhere (I forget where) with the return statement
return .7
!
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Paul Berkowitz
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