Autosave from field?

[Roger Eller]

OOPS!

*In your openStack script:*
put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs

*In your stack script:*
on saveMeCheeses
  -- gather all your text into a variable
  put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
  send saveMeCheeses to me in (tSaveInterval*60) secs -- this one will keep
it repeating
end saveMeCheeses


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>wrote:

> *In your openStack script:*
> put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
> send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs
>
> *In your stack script:*
> on saveMeCheeses
>   -- gather all your text into a variable
>   put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
>   send saveMeCheeses to me in saveMeCheeses -- this one will keep it
> repeating
> end saveMeCheeses
>
> ~Roger
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Merry LibreOffice allows one to set it so that it autosaves a document
>> at a set time interval in case your computer goes wonky, or LibreOffice
>> crashes.
>>
>> And a jolly good idea that is too (even if they pinched it from
>> Microsoft).
>>
>> Now I would like to have the same sort of feature in my "next thang"; the
>> up-and-coming-and-sweeping-**all-office-suits-before-it
>> 'Richmond-Scrubby-Cupboard'
>> (well, round these parts that's what passes for an office) made,
>> needless to say, entirely in Livecode.
>>
>> Obviously, central to my text entry component "Wobbly Word",
>> there will have to be a field, and any autosave feature will have to save
>> and/or export
>> and/or overwrite a rtf and/or html document at regular intervals.
>>
>> Now what I don't understand is how to have a script working away 'in the
>> background'
>> checking the time and autosaving every 2-3 minutes without it interfering
>> with
>> user-initiated scripts in the foreground or the reverse.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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