Re: newbie question about timers...
Re: newbie question about timers...
- Subject: Re: newbie question about timers...
- From: "J. Stewart" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:54:43 -0400
On 3/9/09 at 3:11 PM, email@hidden spake thusly:
That really is the preferred way (an idle handler) but for quick and dirty
pauses I just stick in a perl command:
set SECONDS_TO_PAUSE to 30
...
do shell script "perl -e 'sleep " & SECONDS_TO_PAUSE & ";'"
- Dan
Why bother when -
delay 30
is a lot simpler to write and doesn't need to spawn a shell.
John
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