Excerpts from Ismo Puustinen's message of Sat Dec 15 15:27:59 -0800 2007: > I have a small script that works as a biff-like new mail indicator. > The script would need as input the amount of unread mail in the > inbox. The problem is that the after-poll hook apparently has no > way of knowing how much unread mail there currenly is -- it only > knows the number added during this poll.
I've added a num_inbox_total_unread variable to the after-poll hook. > An even better option might be to add these computationally intensive > operations to an internal API that would be callable from the hooks. > This way the variables would not need to be computed if the hook > didn't need them. The hook system supports this though its "variables" already---passed in variables can be lambdas which are not evaluated unless needed (and then they're cached). I do this for the above, although it's not really an expensive operation thanks to Ferret. -- William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
