Idle handlers and Text files

[Len Morgan]

Along the lines of this discussion, I think someone mentioned that the 
preOpenStack message is NOT sent when you are using the IDE.  Is this 
true?  If so, where can I put start-up code so that I set things up 
before an app gets going in both the IDE and a stand-alone?

Thanks!

len


Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> It is recommended to use the send command instead of the idle handler.
>
> on preOpenStack
>   send "foo" to me in 0 millisecs
>   pass preOpenStack
> end preOpenStack
>
> on foo
>   -- do something here
>   send "foo" to me in 200 millisecs
> end foo
>
> If the preOpenStack handler doesn't allow you to do this, you made a 
> mistake somewhere, which needs to be corrected to avoid problems in 
> the future.
>
> If I understand you correctly, you can't send a mouseUp message 
> automatically after opening the stack. That also means you made a 
> mistake somewhere, which needs to be corrected. I don't think that 
> using the idle handler, or send, is a good alternative in this case. 
> My advice would be to find out why you can't send that mouseUp command.
>
> The Finder simply updates open windows once in a while, including the 
> desktop. It doesn't matter at which level in the hierarchy they are. 
> However, if you add or remove a folder, the window gets updated 
> instantly.  Not sure that it helps you, but if I do a test writing 
> files to a folder or the desktop, I see the file appear instantly on 
> my local disks, but not that quickly on network disks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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> Op 6-nov-2007, om 9:14 heeft Jonathan Scott het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Howdy,
>>     Thank you to everyone who pointed me towards my solutions.
>>     I still don't know exactly what is going on, but here are the 
>> solutions I figured out after receiving your advice:
>>
>> openstack not functioning
>>     I just put in a new card with nothing on it (as the first card in 
>> the stack).  In it's handler I put in an "on idle" handler that does 
>> nothing but issue "send 'mouseUp'" statements and then moves the user 
>> to another card afterward (to a place where there is no "on idle" 
>> handler).
>>
>> text files not being written
>>     The big problem was that text files were actually being written.  
>> I just couldn't find them for a few minutes sometimes.  Sometimes I'd 
>> have to wait a very long time for the files to pop up on the screen.  
>> My assumption was that the finder's ability to update every viewable 
>> portion of the hard drive can take a lot of time.  IOW, the file was 
>> there, it was just that the finder hadn't moved in to update that 
>> part of the screen yet.  So, my workaround was to have all files be 
>> saved to a folder on the desktop.  Because the desktop is closer to 
>> the top of the hierarchical structure, it is probably updated with 
>> much greater frequency.  I still don't know if this is a good 
>> decision.  It works though, so I'm happy.
>>
>>     Thanks again everybody.
>>
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