script on timer?

[DavJans]

is there a way to run a set of code every minute without any user interaction when on a specific card?

like onMouseup but on5minuteinterval

[dave.kilroy]

There are lots of ways of doing this, such as, in the script of the card of your choice:

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local sKeepRepeating

on openCard
    --set up the script variable to control whether the handler can be stopped later on
    put true into sKeepRepeating
    
    --make the first call to repeatingHandler
    repeatingHandler
close openCard

on repeatingHandler
    --if the script variable is true then proceed
    --otherwise if it is false this handler runs through and is not called again
    if sKeepRepeating then
        --do some stuff 
        --if you wish to stop this handler being repeatedly called 
        --you can set sKeepRepeating to false here

        --this is the 'recursion' bit - where the handler calls itself
        send repeatingHandler to me in 5 seconds
    end if
close repeatingHandler

[DavJans]

Thank you so much

[dave.kilroy]

A pleasure - and I'm sure others will chime in with other/better ways. What are you building?