Global time variable

what syntax should I use to run a function within a script in variable time intervals? Would like to avoid having to use cron, iCal etc.

Is this in Script Editor, or AppleScript Studio? AppleScript Studio is, as I mentioned, different. AppleScript Studio does not automatically enable the idle handler; you have to go to the main nib file, choose "File's Owner", and turn on the idle handler in the inspector, similar to the way you would handle a click on a button. It seems to use the same mechanics, though.
As for getting it to work, let's see...
Well, first off, get rid of the brackets after "on idle". You don't need them, and they may be screwing things up.
Next, you probably don't want idle to get called every second, which is what this example is going to do. (It's returning nHours * nMins * nSecs, which is 1 * 1 * 1, which is 1.)
Make sure you're saving the thing as a "Stay-Open" program in Script Editor.
And, finally: keep in mind that the idle handler will only be called if you run the program stand-alone. If you're running it in Script Editor, the idle handler will never be called.

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Hi there. I read some articles about JavaFX concurrency,so as a newbie i have to practice on it. Now i'm trying to implement a turn based application that can be played among 3-6 players. Moreover, i use a scene imported from a .fxml file and i have to update it correctly depends on some calculations of each thread (in other word players ). My main issue is, i don't wanna use a while loop which checks the state of game like;
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So, i want to use worker threads instead of this while loop. I guess using Service class for iterating and assigning the next player will be suitable instead of using the while loop and Tasks for doing each player's calculation,or waiting for some responses from Human players on UI based,however, i'm struggling with two problems.
There should a global static variable ( like GameState which is an Enumarator ) determines the state of the game,so it should be updated and should be checked by each turn. Is there any way to do this ?
How can i get rid off this while loop ?
I will appreciate for every answer. Thanks anyway.

It shouldn't make too much difference. The basic idea is that you have a model class representing your game state (the Game class in jsmith's example). When a player makes a move, you update the state of the game. Since this will result in changes to the UI, this update should be performed on the FX Application Thread.
If the player making the move is a human player, the move will likely be made by a user action (button press or mouse click, etc); this will be handled on the FX Application thread anyway.
When the state of the game changes so it is the turn of an "artificial" player to make a move, have the object representing the artificial player calculate its next move, and then update the game state. Since this is a response to the game state changing (it's now the turn of the artificial player), this will also be on the FX Application Thread.
The only (slight) complexity comes if the calculation of the move for the artificial player takes a long time. You don't want to perform this long running calculation on the FX Application Thread. The cleanest way to manage this is to launch a Task which calculates the desired move, and then updates the game state when the move is ready. So, something like this:
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Global Constants / Variable in OSB

I want to define global Constants / Variable in OSB and I want to access them in XSLT when I am tranforming the requests...
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I want to use these variables and constants for server name and ports (in different environment) and some other stuff.

We have done a similar implementation for the same scenario. We have created a Xquery where we put in the configuration information as an XML and then in the pipeline stages we use the Assign the Xquery to a a temporary variable and then use the values of the xml using relative xpath expressions.
This way any time we need to make any changes to the confguration we know once place we can change and it gets reflected in the complete code base.
Below is how we have done it:
- create a Xquery with xml configurations (say commonconfig.xq)
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Global Application variable

How do I set a global application variable in a Swing application?
Namely
MDI display opens a new window
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What are you talking about?
Static variables are "global".
In some class (it does not really matter which) define
a static variable. O.K. now you have a "global"
variable.
Some people may say that this is "bad" programming
practice, but it is what you asked for.public static variables of public classes are 'global' in the sense you can refer to them if anywhere in an application. Public classes are also 'global' in this sense.
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Hello Experts,
I have declared few variables in package specification (l_test , l_test_2)and i'm using across the API procedures.
But when i run the TOAD expert it says "Avoid defining global public variables in the package specification."
So i thought of moving the code from package specification to package body...
Is this a good approach and will my code work as it was working before if i declare in the body...
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Just so you are aware, the scope of those variables are different depending on if they are defined in the PACKAGE (SPEC) or PACKAGE BODY.
Declared in the PACKAGE (Spec): Globally accessible to everything on the Schema.
Declared in the PACKAGE (Body): Globally accessible to everything with that particular Package.
So as you can see, this quite a big difference. TOAD is warning you because putting globals in the PACKAGE is a pretty sloppy coding practice that can easily lead to difficult to maintain code. While you can ignore it, I'd suggest not doing that. ;)
In fact, I'd suggest avoiding globals altogether when possible. Passing parameters may be more time consuming, but it makes it very clear what each procedure/function should be doing, and future programmers will thank you. Time you'll save on initial programming will be made up when doing maintenance. But admittedly globals are useful, just be careful when using them. Getting your code to work isn't enough; you should aim to make it clear and understandable too.

Time Variable in Container Operation in BPM

hi,
how can we add a time variable in container operation in BPM?
Say i want to increment the time upto 5 hours and see if it has reached in my loop.
how can we achieve this?
Tiru

henrique -
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I have a send step which polls the http receiver and is in a infinite loop.
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Give me idea on Global Container variable in Graphical mapping.
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Ref this
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/95/bb623c6369f454e10000000a114084/content.htm
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Hi Hari,
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Hi All,
Im working with CPM in order to create a cockpit.
Right now i need to use the time variables in order to filter the information by period.
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Regards
I will assign points.

hi Marcos,
did you have the SEM220 training material ? i think cpm time variable is discussed
or check in sap help ... didnt work with CPM for long time
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/3a/4ba1bd2bf203cbe0000800091c1b0e/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/c2/5a4ab4770911d3b7210000e82debc6/frameset.htm
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Thanks
Cheers,
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All,
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