use-revolution Digest, Vol 23, Issue 66

[Jim Hurley]

>
>Message: 17
>Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:13:40 -0400
>From: Jon <jbondy at sover.net>
>Subject: resolution of Time in Rev
>To: Revolution List <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>Message-ID: <43061344.6010203 at sover.net>
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>I'm trying to schedule something to happen some time in the future.  Due
>to some other complexities, I cannot just do a
>
>send "mouseUp" to me in 1000 seconds
>
>Rather, I have to wake up every 10 seconds and figure out whether it is
>time to do the processing or not.  The current code is presented below.
>
>The interesting thing is that, despite the claim that Rev times are in
>seconds, and even in milliseconds, the values I'm seeing are in
>increments of 60 seconds.  I flagged a line in the code below.  Rather
>than seeing "60" and then "50" and then "40", etc, I instead see "60" 6
>times and then "0".  Am I doing something wrong?  Or, rather, what am I
>doing wrong?
>
>BTW: feel free to show me how I should have written this: it is hugely
>awkward and could be done much easier in languages that I know better.
>
>:)
>
>Jon
>
>on mouseup
>    local mostRecentFTPTime
>    -- is it time yet?
>    convert the date && the time to dateItems
>    subtract field "TestFreq" from item 5 of it
>    convert it to seconds
>    put item 1 of it into currTime
>    if currTime < mostRecentFTPTime then
>       -- show the user how long before next test
>       set the text of field "TimeToGo" to mostRecentFTPTime - currTime &
>" secs to go"  --  this is the line I'm talking about
>       send "mouseUp" to me in 10 seconds
>       exit mouseUp            
>    end if
>
>   --  do the FTP stuff here!
>
>    convert the date && the time to seconds
>    put it into mostRecentFTPTime
>    send "mouseUp" to me in 10 seconds
>end MouseUp
>


Jon,

The information in the variable mostRecentFTPTime is lost after 
mouseUp is run. To save that data you might want to consider a custom 
variable, for example: set the mostRecentFTPTime of me to it, and 
earlier: if currTime < the most mostRecentFTPTime of me then

Jim