An alarm thingy

[Andycal]

Just been playing with the 'Send' command to use in conjunction with my new Twitter app (thanks for all the help on that, found just the right code!).

So now I want to create a times tweets system. I was thinking of a file with times and events, comma seperated etc. but then I got stuck on the 'how do I get RunRev to actually read it and do something at a certain time'.

I've read up on the 'send' command and it seems to be in the right area so I can read the file work out the difference between the time it should trigger and the time now and go:

send "something" to me in xx minutes

But can I do this multiple times? Will it use up oodles of processor and more importantly, is there a better way of doing it?

[FourthWorld]

You can do this safely by just checking to see if the message you're about to send is already in the pendingMessages:

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on HandleMessage
    DoSomethingInResponseToMessage
    if pMessage is not in the pendingMessages then
       send "HandleMessage" to me in 120 secs
    end if
end HandleMessage