<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 24, 2019, at 5:16 PM, John-Reed Maffeo <<a href="mailto:jrmaffeo@gmail.com" class="">jrmaffeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I am working on an application which requires task scheduler <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">like cron on UNIX or Task Manager on Windows. </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In </span>the swiki <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">, there is </span>a <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">page about </span><a href="http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1871" class="">Refactored Date and Time Classes</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> which mentions #Schedule in the context of TV programs. I have figured out how to set up, but I can not figure out how to use it productively.</span><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My simple use case is: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">a. create an instance of #Schedule </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">b. Use the schedule to write a string to the Transcript based on the contents of the schedule.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><br class="">|sampleSchedule rightNow cr |<br class=""><br class="">rightNow := DateAndTime now.<br class="">cr := String cr.<br class=""><br class="">sampleSchedule := Schedule starting: rightNow ending: rightNow + 20 minutes .<br class=""><br class="">sampleSchedule schedule: {Duration minutes: 1. Duration minutes: 3}.<br class="">sampleSchedule scheduleDo:[:each |Transcript show: each asString, String cr].</div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">>> This results in all of the schedule items being written to the Transcript immediately, rather at the schedule time for each.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">How to I use a schedule to run a block at the time specified by the schedule. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have looked at #Delay, but it has a limit of ~six days which will not work for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">-jrm</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><br class=""><div class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div>
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