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Re: Display Alert Giving Up After Broken?


  • Subject: Re: Display Alert Giving Up After Broken?
  • From: Todd Blume <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:21:43 -1000

At 11:09 AM +1000 7/19/05, Matthew Smith wrote:
on 19/07/2005 10:59, Todd Blume at email@hidden wrote:

 I'm trying to use "display alert" with the optional "giving up after"
 parameter. If the alert gives up then I want to re-issue the alert for a
 certain number of tries, so I've put the "display alert" in a repeat while
 loop to manage the retries.

I'm a bit puzzled why you would want to redisplay an alert if it gave up.
Why not just extend the giving up after time?

It's a peculiarity of my particular purpose. It's a nag reminder thing that primarily uses a spoken message. I want to repeat the verbal reminder at intervals, and I want to log the reminders and responses periodically. Also the retries always pop up on top this way.


Since the alert/dialog blocks the thread it makes it harder to handle the other aspects. I'm sure that a multi-threaded type solution is possible that periodically pops the alert on top, does the logging etc. - but this seemed like a simple and expedient way to do what needs to be done. A dialog will do.

And it's always to get another bug on the radar ;-)

Aloha,
--
Todd Blume
Tiger Island Software

http://www.TigerIsland.com
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