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Re: Repeat

Subject: Re: Repeat
From: Ben Waldie <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 22:28:20 -0400

Marcus,

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 04:17 PM, Marcus Rodrigues wrote:

Please, can someone teach me how to repeat an action in intervals of one hour?
Thx =)

I assume you mean that you want the script to trigger once every hour. If so, you can do this a couple different ways...

OPTION 1
This code will simply pause your script for an hour

repeat
-- DO YOUR ACTION
delay 3600 -- In seconds. 3600 seconds = 1 hour
end repeat

OPTION 2
This code should be placed into your script. Then, you need to save your application as a "Stay Opened" AppleScript. This option can be selected in the "Save As" dialog box. Once launched, the code in the "idle" handler will be triggered every hour.

on idle
-- DO YOUR ACTION
return 3600 -- In seconds. 3600 seconds = 1 hour
end idle

If you are indeed looking to have your script perform a single task over and over again for one hour, you can do this with the following code...

set theStopDate to (current date) + (1 * hours)
repeat
-- DO YOUR ACTION
if (current date) !C theStopDate then exit repeat
end repeat

- Ben

Benjamin S. Waldie
Automated Workflows, LLC
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Thanks,

- Ben

Benjamin S. Waldie
Automated Workflows, LLC
=============================================
AppleScript and Workflow Automation
Consulting - <http://www.automatedworkflows.com>
AppleScript Info - <http://www.applescriptguru.com>
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