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: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 18:02:31 +1000
On 8/10/02 4:32 PM +1000, Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden, wrote:
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On 10/7/02 11:15 PM, "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> If an idle handler does not have a return statement it uses the default
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>> return of 30 seconds. The least you can return is 1 (second).
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> If the result of the last operation in an idle handler is not a
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> positive integer, the idle period remains the same as it was for the
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> prior iteration. If the period was not set in an earlier iteration it
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> defaults to 1 second. I wrote a script to test just those conditions
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> (the result of the last operation was a boolean value) and found that
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> 1000 iterations of the idle handler took 1016 seconds.
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Hmmm. Has it changed? Which AS version? This is what the ASLG says, p.307
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(AS 1.3.7 of course):
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If a stay-open script application includes an Idle handler, AppleScript
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sends the script application periodic Idle commands whenever it9s not
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responding to incoming events. The statements in the handler run
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periodically (every 30 seconds, by default).
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For example, the following handler causes a stay-open script application to
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beep every 30 seconds after it has been launched.
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on idle
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beep
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end idle
There was a bug for a while where, if the last result wasn't a number, it
still affected the idle delay (I can't remember the exact details), and I
think that may be what Marc is seeing.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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