<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">I've got an app that needs to poll the user's network settings every 3 seconds. I'm presently doing this by calling a unix command via the shell command in Revolution on Mac OS X.<BR>
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The problem I'm having is that, while this seems to work, it makes dragging the application window very jittery when the app is running. I suspect this is because I might be creating a memory-hogging timer loop. Here's what I'm doing:<BR>
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on opencard<BR>
send "checkstatus" to this stack<BR>
end opencard<BR>
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on checkstatus<BR>
put shell(unixcallgoeshere) into field "status result"<BR>
send "checkstatus" to this stack in 3 seconds<BR>
end checkstatus<BR>
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The unix call I'm using spits back it's result instantaneously, so there shouldn't be a backlog via the unix side of things. Is it bad to have a handler call itself via a timer - - - does that create some sort of "nesting" problem?<BR>
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