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 > the AppleScript process. Depending on what tasks are being completed, you > may not be able to show specific progress, but at least your hot-folder app > can show that it is operation (using an animation or similar), you can keep > your hot-folder app responsive, and you can kill the AppleScript app if > necessary. > > This may sound a bit extreme, but I've done it before with installers that > needed to interact with other processes that would normally lock up > LiveCode. >
a more extreme version of this is to use the 3.5 command line engine (aka cgi engine) and some scripts for the processing. This way, when your application wants to process a file it opens a new process to the script and executes it. You application will not lock and you will avoid launching another application and bloating the dock.... Same thing explained in steps: step #1: pick your processing code and refactor it into a text script file to be executed by 3.5 engine step #2: bundle engine and script with your app step #3: main application finds a new file step #4: main application uses a loop with open process and read/write to process to interact with script step #5: user is happy and you can even process more than one file at the same time. > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > > Recently, tkuyp...@telenet.be wrote: > >> Hi gang... >> >> 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 file is >> found then it is processed, but I want to show some kind of progress on >> screen >> to show the app is working. >> >> I've tried firing off a second event, to show a counter, but that doesn't do >> anything. >> And of course clicking on the "Stop Processing" button doesn't work as well >> :-( >> >> Any suggestions on how to show a progress, and how to make the "Stop" button >> to work during the execution of an applescript? >> >> Any suggestions are welcome. >> >> >> Met vriendelijke groeten, >> >> Ton Kuypers > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
