Background process

[Klaus Major]

Hi Simon,

> It's been a while since I fired up MetaCard but I would like to do the 
> following if possible...
> Can I run a metacard exe (mac/pc - linux if possible) as a 
> *background* process which takes screenshots every xNum of minutes?  
> How would I do that?

Hmm, at least for the mac this would work, just tested :-)

on mouseUp
   send "doit" to me in 5 secs
end mouseUp

I clicked and switched to "Mail.app", so MC was in the "background"...

on doit
   export snapshot from rect (the screenrect) to file "sc1.jpg" as JPEG
end doit

I am sure you will figure out how to adopt this to your app...
If in doubt drop a line :-)

And then i found this nice and big (1600*1200) jpg in the 
defaultfolder...
You can set "the jpegquality" first if you like...

For OS X there might be a chance to put your app into the "background",
read no dock icon, by adding something to the "Info.plist"...

This is from Ken's wonderful and helpful RR page, i hope he won't 
mind...
Just for your convenience ;-)

Please bookmark:
http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Look for -> Developer Resources -> Revolution

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Hiding a Process (Making a Backgrounded App)
(Mac OS X Only)
To hide an application process in OS X 10.2 and earlier, open the 
Info.plist file in the
Contents folder of the application package. Add this to the <dict> 
section (it doesn't seem to matter where):

<key>NSBGOnly</key>
<string>1</string>

  In OS X 10.3 and later, add this instead:

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

  Doing this will remove the process from the Dock, and from any menus 
that list active (visible) processes.
To show it again, you can either put in a 0 instead of a 1 for the 
<key>, or you can remove the whole thing.

Cross-posted from the SuperCard List
Updated 8/25/04 by Ken Ray from a tip posted by Devin Asay to the 
Use-Revolution list
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Hope that helps...

> Sincerely,
> Simon

Regards from germany

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de