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Re: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
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Re: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class


  • Subject: Re: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
  • From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:24:49 -0500

on 2004-03-14 10:38 PM, Walter Ian Kaye at email@hidden
wrote:

>> 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'.
>
> And this works in AS 1.1, OS 7.6.1:
>
> with timeout of (10 * minutes) seconds

It also works in AS 1.0, at least according to my looseleaf AppleScript 1.0
SDK manual.

--

Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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http://www.quecheesoftware.com

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