Waiting for the train

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 15:58:02 EDT 2016


Well . . . that works as far as menu commands from the revMenubar stack 
go, but it still blocks
mouseClicks on the revTools stack and keyboard commands . . .

Richmond.

On 22.09.2016 22:55, Richmond wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Where?
>
> wait 18000 ticks with messages
>
> ?
>
> Richmond.
>
> On 22.09.2016 22:38, Mike Bonner wrote:
>> add "with messages"
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a stack that sits around as a Palette with a script in it that
>>> repeats itself every 18000 ticks (that's 5 minutes to Thee and Me) with
>>> a code like this:
>>>
>>> *put 1 into KOUNT**
>>> **repeat until KOUNT = 1003*
>>> /do various jolly things/
>>> *add 1 to KOUNT**
>>> **wait 18000 ticks**
>>> **end repeat*
>>>
>>> The "wait 18000 ticks" seems to be locking up the whole IDE so I cannot
>>> get on and do other things . . .
>>>
>>> Would be grateful if anyone could suggest a way round this.
>>>
>>> Richmond.
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