Reliably detecting a successful save in Windows

Stephen King st.king42 at ntlworld.com
Sun Jan 20 14:10:20 EST 2008


Ok -second thoughts this approach is rubbish, as the result is a function!

Is it possible to determine when the save command has completed (and the
result should appear valid)?

Steve

>Hi Eric

>Yes I am aware of this and the first attempt had the test directly after
>the save. The delay was put in to see if this cured the problem. 
>I think you missed the point though. The problem I have is that saving over
> a network can take some time, several seconds and it seems that Rev
>continues straight after the save command but the result is only updated
>with a fail if the save itself times out or hits some other problem. This
>can be several seconds later and until this time, the result is empty. By
>the time it comes back, Rev is well gone!

>I wonder.. not tried this but can the result be set by script before the
>save command , then Rev updates with either empty or unsuccessful at the
>end of the save. Won't work if Rev modifies the result when the save
>command is issued. 

>Such as: 
>Set the result to "saving"
>Save this stack
>Repeat until the result is not "Saving"
>End Repeat
>Test the result...

>Can't test this myself unfortunately as I'm not accessing the PC with Rev
>on it..

>Cheers
>Steve





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