Re: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
Re: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
- Subject: Re: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:00:59 -0800
On 3/14/04 11:57 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 3/14/04 10:51 AM, "Graff" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> You can do this already. There is a constant called "minutes" which is
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> defined as 60 seconds. There are also hours, days, weeks, and months.
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> All of these are just constants and they resolve to the number of
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> seconds that such a unit of time would hold. To use them you would do
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> something like:
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> with timeout of 10 * minutes
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> I'm not sure when this was added but I know that it has been around
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> since at least AppleScript 1.9.2
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More like AppleScript 1.3 or thereabouts (OS 8.5 or 8.6), I think. Or
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earlier.
Except that does _not_ work in 'with timeout of' . That requires 'seconds'
[or 'second'] as part of the statement. 'minutes' (and 'hours', 'days' and
'weeks') are constants that can be used as a conversion for numbers, but not
in 'with timeout'.
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Paul Berkowitz
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