What need an idle message to start ?

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
I have an idle message on the cd script

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on idle
   if the environment <> "mobile" then
      set the hilite of btn "bMultipleSelection" to (shiftKey() is down)
   end if
   pass idle
end idle

Don't work after the opencard message.
If I clic on an other stack, idle message start
I feel i forget something basic
Best regards
Jean-Marc

[magice]

This doesn't exactly answer your question, but every time I have started out with an idle message, I have found a way to use the send command in its place and it had worked more efficiently. Rather than fight with making the idle work, you might be better off just creating a polling system with send to in time.

[jmburnod]

Thanks for your reply
I'll do that
Best regards
Jean-marc

[Dixie]

What are you trying to do here ?

Dixie

[jmburnod]

Hi John,

I doesn't try. I do
It seems a pendingmessage will be better than an idle message to set the hilite of a btn to the shiftKey() is down

[jmburnod]

Magice,
I confirm pendingmessage is better than idle message in this case

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on DoCheckShift
   set the hilite of btn "bMultipleSelection" to (shiftKey() is down)
   if "DoCheckShift"  is not in the pendingmessages then
      send "DoCheckShift" to me in 10 milliseconds
   end if
end DoCheckShift

[bn]

Hi Jean-Marc,

if you use 10 milliseconds you make a very tight loop.

I think the screen refresh is every 16 milliseconds = 1 tick. The shortest mouseMove intervall is 16 milliseconds.

For user interface things everything below 100 milliseconds is barely noticeable. Especially if you have to push a key on the keyboard one is distracted and this shortens the perceived latency.

I tried with 150 milliseconds in the loop and that seems to respond quite immediately. 200 and more milliseconds start to show latency.

The short story is you don't need a 10 millisecond loop it strains the program unnecessarily.
And please make shure to clear all your pendingMessages when e.g. you leave the card. Windows Standalones don't like continuing messaging when closing and refuse to close. On a Mac it kills the messages somehow

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on closeCard
   repeat for each line aLine in the pendingMessages
      if aLine contains "DoCheckShift" then cancel item 1 of aLine
   end repeat
   set the hilite of btn "bMultipleSelection" to false
end closeCard

Kind regards
Bernd

[jmburnod]

Hi Bernd,
Thanks one more for your comments.
I just tested the interval for the pending message and you're right, 150 milliseconds work fine

make shure to clear all your pendingMessages

Yes, i killed the pending message at closecard
Kind regards
Jean-Marc

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
Using shiftkey() to change the hilitedlines selection mode wasn't a good idea (multipleHilitedlines or not)
It work normally and logically (like a multipleHilitedlines with the shifkey() = true

I use a checkbox instead shiftkey() and I can live with that.
By the way, if someone have a light idea, I will take it
Best regards
Jean-Marc