Polling in Rev (send verses wait)

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Jul 24 16:02:00 EDT 2005


Glen Bojsza wrote:
> I am working on an app that needs to do a polling routine every N
> seconds (where N is defaulted to 10 unless the user defines it
> themselves). The routine gathers information from some files and
> parses it with the results being displayed in the appropriate fields.
> 
> This routine needs to be a run as a background process because the
> user will be working with the application to update information etc.
> 
> The Rev docs lead me to think that either the send or the wait command
> could be used. I was hoping someone would shed some light on which
> selection should be used in this case.

Use "send". More info here:

<http://www.hyperactivesw.com/polling.html>


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