Polling in Rev (send verses wait)

Glen Bojsza gbojsza at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 16:49:28 EDT 2005


Thanks Jacque,

I have built a quick script that uses "send" and it seems to work well.

regards,

Glen

On 7/24/05, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 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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