Autosave from field?

[Peter Haworth]

One extra thought.  Maybe it would be good for openField to set a custom
property of the field to true and have a closefield/exitfield handler to
set it to false Then have SaveMeCheeses check the custom property
before sending the message to itself.  Might prevent some unnecessary saves.
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 2:54 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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