Time Field (Please Help)

[David Vaughan]

On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 04:24 , Rob Cozens wrote:

>> snip
> I made a copy of my HC Home stack and placed the following handler in 
> the
> card script of card "User Preferences":
>
> on testit
>   if there is a card field "User Name" then put "Found It" else beep
> end testit
>
> From the message window I type 'send "testit" to card "User 
> Preferences"'.
>
> If I'm on card "User Preferences", "Found It" appears in the message
> window; if I'm on a different card, I get the beep.
>
> IF it works this way in Transcript, I submit it is the best solution
> because no explicit action is necessary to stop the loop when leaving 
> the
> card.

Rob

You can not depend on it fail silently because Transcript is less 
bashful than HC. If the field does not exist then (in the development 
environment) you get an error dialog with "Chunk can't find object to 
store into". Using the if construct avoids that problem.

Of course, you could always set idleRate to 1 second and use the idle 
message rather than send in. Who needs the seconds ticking by anyway? 
Set it to 30 seconds and display hours and minutes.

regards
David

>
> Rob Cozens
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>
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