WHIOE1@NUSDISCS.Bitnet (10/02/88)
>from the introduction card to an additional info card. A wait command >shuts things down for a given amount of time. The script dosn't see >the mousedown while waiting. To get around this I wrote an event loop that >looks for a mousedown for about 8 seconds then if the event does not happen, >goes to the central card of the application. The only problem I have >for the event loop is the time it takes a Mac+ and a IIx to go through >the loop x times. I want to make x a var whose value depends upon the >type of CPU {& thus approx speed}. Regarding your query... I think the better solution would be to use the Tickcount() function instead of an event loop. You could try the following : put the tickcount into startTime repeat forever put the tickcount - startTime into interval if the mouse is down or (interval / 60) > 8 then exit repeat end repeat I haven't debugged this code... cos I'm far away from my mac, but inside my head.. that's how I think it should be done. The use of Tickcount would make your code independent of the clockspeed of the processor that you are using. Hope this helps. /jesse sngkhoon@nusdiscs (Jesse Sng, National University of Singapore Dept of Computer Science & Information Systems ) ps. I'm one of those who got a beta-release of the Hypertalk Reference by Apple. It was probably the most helpful document on Hypercard that I've managed to obtain to date. For serious programmers, this is a MUST.