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Internet access
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:33 am
by anmldr
I now live in Costa Rica. Internet access is frequently unavailable at my house...many places in Costa Rica, really. It is on-off-on frequently. Is there a command or function in LC that can check the status of a connection while the app is running in the background? This would be for all platforms. This way I would not need to constantly check on it myself. I could be doing other tasks that do not require access and be alerted when the Internet is available again.
Thanks,
Linda
Re: Internet access
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 3:53 am
by andresdt
There are things I don't know how to do, for example make the app run as a background system service. I know that in Win it is possible and that in Android it is not. In the rest of the platforms I have no idea. But here I share something that can help you.
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on mouseUp
__InternetMonitor
end mouseUp
constant kURL = "http://detectportal.firefox.com/"
command __InternetMonitor
unload URL kURL
load URL kURL with message "InternetStatus"
end __InternetMonitor
local sLastStatus
on InternetStatus pURL, pStatus
if pURL is kURL then
if pStatus is not "cached" then
put pStatus into sLastStatus
-- Not Internet
else
if sLastStatus is no pStatus then
put pStatus into sLastStatus
put url pURL
beep
-- Launch App or URL
answer warning "Internet"
end if
end if
end if
send "__InternetMonitor" to me in 1 sec
end InternetStatus