Re: Timing a Long Event
Re: Timing a Long Event
Using an Ignoring application responses block + polling probably won't work for do shell script.
You could use the Bash & command to run your script in the background.
You can then put your AS code into a polling loop with a suitable delay to look for shell output to a file.
Alternatively you could use AppleScriptObjC which will give you access to NSTask and a NSRunLoop.
But it's a lot more complex.
Jonathan Mitchell
Developer
http://www.mugginsoft.com
On 19 Apr 2010, at 15:57, Marconi wrote:
> I'm trying to time an hours-long event using AS.
>
> I get the start time, perform the task, get the stop time, calculate the duration from start and stop times and post a dialog to say how long it took.
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> But this always times out. I tried using a timeout of 12 hours but I still get a timeout error.
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> The task is performed by a "do shell script" which offers no output until the task is done.
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> Is there some way to do this timing as I am, wrapping the task in AS to note start and stop times, without it timing out?
>
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