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: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:01:08 -0500
On Mar 14, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 3/14/04 11:57 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
On 3/14/04 10:51 AM, "Graff" <email@hidden> wrote:
You can do this already. There is a constant called "minutes" which
is
defined as 60 seconds. There are also hours, days, weeks, and
months.
All of these are just constants and they resolve to the number of
seconds that such a unit of time would hold. To use them you would
do
something like:
with timeout of 10 * minutes
I'm not sure when this was added but I know that it has been around
since at least AppleScript 1.9.2
More like AppleScript 1.3 or thereabouts (OS 8.5 or 8.6), I think. Or
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'.
Right, I wrote this up without testing it because I was in a bit of a
hurry and it was fairly trivial. I forgot that the "with timeout of"
statement requires the statement "seconds" at the end of the number.
Goes to show that you should always test before posting, no matter how
trivial the command is!
-Ken
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