Periodic launching

[bonura@apple.com (Tom Bonura)]

>  Admittedly, this
>is a hack, but the hack requires a timer mechanism external to Lisp to
>make it work.  Of course, the timer mechanism could be another Lisp
>image, but QuicKeys seems to be just the right thing -- and does a lot
>of other neat stuff.


Byron,

There is yet another hack - you could build a little AppleScript applet
which runs as a background applicaiton and does the same thing - launching
MCL and telling MCL to read some files and build an application.  The
biggest advantage over QK is that applescript is a full scripting language
and provides control structures which QK does not.

BTW, you can also run a QK script from within AppleScript.  If the
AppleScript thing is interesting to you, there are a couple of primers out
in the bookstores - at least one of which contains a diskette of examples &
tools (The Tao of AppleScript).





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