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From: tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: system messages
Keywords: time system messages
Message-ID: <458@wcc.oz>
Date: 14 Nov 89 01:43:09 GMT
References: <2060@sactoh0.UUCP>
Organization: Webster Computer, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <2060@sactoh0.UUCP>, aaalexis@sactoh0.UUCP (Andrew A. Alexis) writes:
> I am developing an informational display using hypercard on the
	
> to be able to do is to have the stack log data every N minutes or
> so, while simulataneously maintaining the informational display.
> In other words, I need some kind of system message to put in the
> stack script like " on timetick .."so that the users can be doing
> something else in the stack.

In the Stack script:

on openStack
  global whenTo, doItInterval
  put 10 into doItInterval -- the interval in seconds
  put the seconds + doItInterval into whenTo
end openStack

on idle
  global whenTo, doItInterval
  if the seconds > whento then
    add doItInterval to whenTo
    (do whatever it is you want to do - preferably send a message to
     something. Don't put a wad of code here - it'll probably slow the
     script down too much)
  end if
  pass idle
end idle

Put it in your Home Stack Script and it will follow you ANYWHERE!

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