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Hi Sturgis, I feel like I have to quote bn once again by saying "Welcome to the wonders of time!" rofl. Who would have thunk that making an alarm clock was so complicated. I had no idea when I first started this that designing something that would trigger something else at a certain time (set by the...

Wow, I feel like I'm getting much closer now. This works without the CPU overhead but its still a little crude. on openCard displayTime end openCard on displayTime put shell ("sleep 1; date") into field "fTime" send displayTime to me end displayTime This seems to work nicely but the stack will lock ...

Hi Malte, Thanks for your response. I was thinking about using on idle last night. I actually came up with a different solution that actually does what I want it to do but the downside is the system goes up to 100% CPU usage. More accurately it is "syslogd" that does, so if you want to try this next...

Well, thought I would give an update regardless of my last post stating everything was good :wink: Turns out this "time freeze" issue has kinda bugged me more than I thought. Sure, I have ambled along with my project for the last few weeks I'm happy to say all is going well... but this still remains...

Well, good news! :D It looks like you were right bn in the fact that other programs seem to also suffer from the issue of "time freeze" if the app itself is not running when the time is changed. It also looks like I have figured out a way to create a "System Menu" for quick access to the main interf...

bn, Yeah, I think you are right and I'm probably just worrying over nothing. Basically I was hoping to have a second "interface" app which will allow the time for the alarm to be set and then compared with the time in the invisible "timer" app but as my experience is quite limited I haven't got that...

bn, Well, at its most basic level you could say what I'm aiming for is exactly the same as an alarm clock. If the field "fTime" matches another field containing a preset time then it will do something eg. beep. While I was testing my script I had gone in and altered the current time in System Prefs ...

Hi ibe,

Thats a great idea, I will definitely look into that.

Looks like I have some reading to do! lol

Thanks again for the help and if anyone else has any suggestions please feel free to post.

Hi bn, Thank you so much for your response. The "resumeStack" command was one of the things I was looking for and is very helpful. This definitely helps with what I'm trying to do but it would be really awesome if there was no suspension of the stack or script at all if the time is set backwards. Un...

Thanks for the quick response on that one malte.

Anyone else wanna take a crack at this one??

I really hope someone out there can help me with this one. I'm running Mac OS X and I've been trying to figure out a way around this problem for a little while now with no luck. I have a very very simple stack to display a field with the current time with seconds ticking away. Card Script: on openCa...