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To run a script continuously the idle handler is the way to go.
on idle
set the clipboard to "http://www.accuweather.com/" --from standard
additions
return 5 --wait 5 seconds before running again
end
On May 22, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Marc Bossiere wrote:
> Does anyone have an elegant, simple idea for a script which could
> run in the background and
> check the contents of the system clipboard continuously?
>
> I'm trying to find a way to open a web page from inside mini vMac (a
> simple Mac Plus
> emulator) where I have several Hypercard stacks running. This
> emulator does not allow any
> interacton with the host OS (X) machine, except for two little apps
> which get and put
> clipboard contents from and to the host machine. So I hope to send a
> flag and a URL to the
> host machine from vMac (via the clipboards) and have Applescript on
> the host machine
> notice it (more or less immediately), extract the URL, and load it
> to a modern browser. And
> something vice-versa, which I can write a HyperTalk idle script to
> notice.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> mbossiere
>
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