What is the best way to trigger an action at a certain time?

[Bob Sneidar]

Hmmm. Ok, but it seems having the LC app running invisibly all the time, listening for a command, something the cron service could do through the terminal easily enough, you could make it much more efficient. Just methods and madness I suppose. 

Bob S


> On Jul 12, 2022, at 13:15 , Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I think I may not have been very clear.
> 
> This isn't LiveCode doing anything special; just a standalone LiveCode app that either does something immediately on launch (and then quits), or inspects the command line parameters to decide what to do (and then quits).