automating a task

[Dave Cragg]

At 1:26 pm -0700 12/4/04, Brian E. Warshawsky wrote:

>I've tried:
>repeat forever
>get the time
>if the short system time is 12:00 AM then
>libURLDownloadToFile "ftp://username@password@mysite.com/testing.txt",
>TFlog.txt
>else end if
>
>I've also tried:
>
>repeat forever
>wait 5000 seconds
>libURLDownloadToFile "ftp://username@password@mysite.com/testing.txt",
>TFlog.txt
>
>and:
>if the short system time is 12:00 AM then
>libURLDownloadToFile "ftp://username@password@mysite.com/testing.txt",
>TFlog.txt
>else repeat until the short system time is 12:00 AM

There should be a colon between user name and password in the url:

  "ftp://username:password@mysite.com/testing.txt"

I don't think you want to use a "repeat forever" structure for this 
kind of thing as nothing else will run in your application. A "send 
<message> in <time>" will probably work better. If the download has 
to take place approximately every 24 hours, then something like this 
might do:

   on onceADayDownload
     put the seconds into tStart
     put url "ftp://username:password@mysite.com/testing.txt" into url 
("binfile:" & "tFlog.txt")
     send "onceADayDownload" to me in tStart + 24*60*60 seconds
   end onceADayDownload

Or to make sure the download takes place between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m., 
send every 30 minutes and check the time.

   local lvDoneAlready
   on onceADayDownload
     put the seconds into tTime
     convert tTime to dateItems
     if item 4 of tTime is 2 and not lvDoneAlready then
       put url "ftp://username:password@mysite.com/testing.txt" into 
url ("binfile:" & "tFlog.txt")
       ## check the result here and log errors if necessary
       put true into lvDoneAlready
     else
       put false into lvDoneAlready
     end if
     send "onceADayDownload" to me in 30*60 seconds
   end onceADayDownload

Cheers
Dave