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

[Ben Rubinstein]

Whatever works for your situation! At least one of my jobs, which runs a few 
times a week (pulling data from an internal system, generating and emailing a 
PDF report) has to launch fresh each time because of a bug in the graph widget 
which displays wrong if the script runs twice!

There are others where the LC qpp is part of a dance in which other systems 
run before and after, so a batch script invoking each in turn is the thing 
that's scheduled.

But of course there are contexts in which the best solution is an LC app 
waiting for a time or a command at which to leap into action.

On 12/07/2022 22:56, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> 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.
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> Bob S
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>> 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).
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