Just out of curiosity, how *would* you do this via shell call or the equivalent on a Windows laptop?
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Feb 20, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > Hi Richard > > I noticed in your bug report was for Mac so till that enhancement gets > implemented you could use this. > > function powerStatus > put shell ("pmset -g batt") into tPowerStatus > put matchtext(tPowerStatus, "'([^']*)",tPowerSource) into tSuccess > return tPowerSource > end powerStatus > > Not sure how to do this for other platforms. > > I wonder if this could be something that could be made into a widget once > they are ready? > > > > > Richard Gaskin wrote >> >> * If we want to max out the CPU by taking full advantage of idle time >> for background processing, it would be ideal to do this only when >> powered by wall socket, so laptops running from battery wouldn't be >> drained unnecessarily by what could be optional workloads. To do that >> we'd need to be able to know when a computer us running on battery, so I >> requested a powerStatus function: >> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13819> >> >> -- >> Richard Gaskin >> Fourth World Systems >> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web >> ____________________________________________________________________ >> > >> Ambassador@ > >> http://www.FourthWorld.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@.runrev > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Because-LC-can-t-do-two-things-at-once-tp4689071p4689108.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
