goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> 
...
> <CSOTD>
> "A small snippet that plays a tune when something has changed at the
> Squeak Swiki!
> It simply polls the recent changes page every 30 seconds in a separate
> Process.
> Do note though that a too small Delay might overload the poor Swiki. Set
> it reasonably high..."

I think better would be e.g. 30 *minutes* instead... (your code snippet
slurps the whole content of the page)

Greetings,

Stephan


> | oldContent newContent |
> oldContent _ nil.
> [[Smalltalk at: #Stop ifAbsent:[true]] whileTrue: [
>         newContent _ 'http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/recent' asUrl
> retrieveContents contents.
>         (oldContent ~= newContent) ifTrue:[
>                 (FMSound majorChordOn: FMSound flute1 from: #c4) play.
>                 oldContent _ newContent
>         ].
>         (Delay forSeconds:  30) wait.
> ]] forkAt: Processor userBackgroundPriority
> </CSOTD>

-- 
Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
   "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
    You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
    -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3