Smile wait for log
Smile wait for log
- Subject: Smile wait for log
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:06:49 -0700
Is there a way, in Smile V2.6.9 under MacOS 10.4.2, to wait for the
Console to catch up?
I have a very-long-running program (hours, eventually) and I'd like
to monitor the Console "log" command outputs. But the Console just
shows the first line or two until the program finishes, then
everything shows up at once.
Postit is great for showing me what's going on right now, but I want
to look back a few lines into a permanent Console log. The "log"
function does exactly what I want, except for this annoying delay.
There must be something I can put into an inner loop that will let
the log catch up.
Putting in a "display dialog giving up after 1" does exactly what I
want. However, it has the annoying side effect that the program
comes to a complete stop (and does not give up after one second) if
Smile isn't frontmost. I want to do other things on my machine while
this program is running, so responding to the alert is annoying.
I tried "delay 0.1" but that, amazingly, didn't let the log catch up.
It did have the side benefit of letting my unrelated applications
have more CPU time, so I'm leaving it in.
I have tried msg and Quietmsg, but these seem to have the same
waiting philosophy as log.
I tried smilepause, but I could not figure out the syntax. I kept
getting errors at compile time and execute time.
C'mon, there's gotta be something.
--Gil
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