Autosave from field?

[Richmond]

On 03/30/2013 10:34 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> just say "LGBT community". Easier.

Thanks, but I still need to know the possessive pronoun . . . 'shis' ?

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> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different way
>> of doing things
>> and had the stack save a backup RTF document every time the end-user
>> pressed a key on her/his
>>
>> (and I really should apologise that I am not entirely sure how to signal
>> that I should like to include the transgendered community in this
>> statement; I would be most grateful if a transgendered person who may be
>> lurking on the Use-lIst - Hey, come out of the closet into the Livecode
>> sunshine could tell me the T possessive pronoun)
>>
>> keyboard by putting an export to file statement at the end of an on
>> rawKeyDown script.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
>>   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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