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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: script help
Message-ID: <6410018@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 88 21:17:16 GMT
References: <6410017@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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What I am doing with this script is showing an introductory card for people
to read when the application is starting. At the end of about 8 seconds, Hypercard automatically goes to a different card. If during the 8 seconds, the user
wants to get additional info, she can press at mouse which will take the user
from the introduction card to an additional info card. A wait command
shuts things down for a given amount of time. The script dosn't see
the mousedown while waiting. To get around this I wrote an event loop that
looks for a mousedown for about 8 seconds then if the event does not happen,
goes to the central card of the application. The only problem I have
for the event loop is the time it takes a Mac+ and a IIx to go through
the loop x times. I want to make x a var whose value depends upon the
type of CPU {& thus approx speed}.

TeriAnn