put awareness

Sarah Reichelt sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Mon May 17 20:21:10 EDT 2004


> Well, I'm using "libURLSetLogField" to handle the messages.  I did 
> manage to
> setup a idle handler that works pretty well, but I really do hate 
> using idle
> messages.
>
Use send in time instead of idle e.g.

on checkField
   -- see if your field has changed
   -- do stuff if it has
   send "checkField" to me in 5 ticks  -- or whatever interval suits
end checkField

This is much better than idle as it doesn't hog the processor.

Cheers,
Sarah



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