On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote:
In addition to the other suggestions, another option is to hand off the
AppleScript launch to a separate LiveCode application. This way your
hot-folder app remains independent of the launch app that gets locked up by
tkuypers wrote:
I've created a hot-folder based app, that executes a few scripts when
a file if dropped into a specific folder.
But these scripts can take up to 4 minutes to end and during that
period LiveCode is locked.
I'm using a send command to watch the folder every few seconds, is a
Richard,
I like that! :-D
My WebMerge product has a similar challenge: for most folks it runs in just
a few seconds, but it's sometimes used to process very large collections of
product lists (300,000 or more) which can take a few minutes.
So I needed both a way to indicate progress, and a
Le 12 janv. 2011 à 14:52, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
So I needed both a way to indicate progress, and a way to cancel the task,
just as you do.
Hi Richard,
I had the same problem with one of my external written in C.
and that's exactly what I've done. ( different context, but same solution )
sadly with only one thread, you will need to wait for your external
code to complete unless you do some funky coding using the open
process command http://docs.runrev.com/Command/open-process
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