Time display

[Ray Horsley]

on 11/25/02 11:04 PM, Phil Davis at phildavis at attbi.com wrote:

> Actually that should be:
> 
> Idle handlers are the devil's workshop.
> 
> (maybe the old saying was only a US thing... )
> :o)
> Phil
> 
> On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 10:51 PM, Dominique wrote:
> 
>>> Put an "on idle" handler in the card's script
>> 
>> idle is the root of all evil...
>> 
>> avoid it!
>> 
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With all respect to Dominique and Phil, I would like to disagree here.  I
use to avoid idle handlers like crazy in HyperCard until one day one of the
guys from Heizer Software said simply "There's nothing wrong with idle
handlers".  I've used them ever since with no problem.  You just have to
remember they're there when you look for bugs.

Ray Horsley
Developer, LinkIt! Software