scheduleTask() doesn't work !

[Zhiqing_Li]

Hi guys,

I was tring to write a function that can repeatly run itself once per second,and I used app.scheduleTask().

like this,

function newFunction () {

     ......

     ......

     scheduleTask("newFunction ()",1000,false);

}

Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't work.

Is there something about scheduleTask() that I don't know ?

Or, could you guys tell me how to write a function that can diaplay a number that increase 1 per second on a scriptUI panel ?

Thank you!!!!!

[mike_cardeiro]

not sure if this is it, but the dosc say to give the scheduleTask() function a string of javascript, where you are supplying a function (which seems like the better way but maybe thats the problem).

Mike Cardeiro

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D4 Creative Group - Philadelphia, PA       

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[Alan_AEDScripts]

On Aeenhancers I've seen it's better to:

var theStr = "the javascript code etc";

scheduleTask(theStr,1000,false);

[chauffeurdevan]

Make sure the code your are feeding in the scheduletask is perfectly written. No syntax error, semi-colon at the end of every line of code.

Think of it as if there is no carriage return in you code, it still should execute.

function notWorking(){

          var a = "test"

          var b = anotherFunction()

}

will give :

function notWorking(){var a = "test"var b=anotherFunction()}

SO PUT SEMICOLONS!

function working(){

          var a = "test";

          var b = anotherFunction();

}

will give :

function working(){var a = "test";var b=anotherFunction();}

[Alan_AEDScripts]

Seeing we are on this-

I was wondering if there was a more elegant way of: 'Checking to see if the user has changed the open project'.

Currently the only way I think is to schedule a task that checks every 5 seconds. I need it checked automatically, so I don't want to use an update button etc.

Am I stuck with running tasks repeatedly?

[chauffeurdevan]

Don't go that route, a scheduled task running in background will just break whenever you open a window - e.g. Composition settings.

[Zhiqing_Li]

I found out that if scheduleTask() doesn't work, you can use

$.sleep(1000);

eval(string);

instead.

[Alan_AEDScripts]

Thanks a lot - will try out and see how it affects general workflow in AFX.

Have ye noticed a background thread running like this causes havoc with working away in AFX? Don't want to get into it if it's problematic.

I am using an 'update' button at the moment - but it would be nice if the script could pick up the changes automatically.

Cheers.

[Alan_AEDScripts]

Know this is quite an old thread but came back to this and not having any issues using scheduleTask....

The most important thing is that it is a string and not code, so that it responds to the "eval" that Adobe calls each iteration.

The modal dialogs seem to pause the running but then it resumes when  a dialog closes, that makes sense.

I came across some code behind the ESTK that uses the scheduleTask in quite an advanced way... an ESTK version but

same principals apply - probably quite similar.