Hey, currently, I’m helping programing a game, and having online support in the strangest ways, but it loads too slow, so I’m going to use a applescript app to make it go faster. So, I’m wondering, could anyone here help me make the app, or possibly make it themselves?
Here is how it will work:
When started, this AS app will run on a continuous loop every fraction of a second. What it will do is read a text file named “varname”. If the text file has anything but “Done” or “Shut off” in it, it will activate some code that I will personally put in. After it accesses that code, it will save a variable from that code into a text file named “vardata”. If the “varname” file says “Done” than it will continue the loop but do nothing. If it says “Shut off” than the applescript file will exit and shut off.
Anyone know how to make it or can help me make it?
The problem with this is (unless there is a shell script to do this)
When you launch your game text edit will be opened as well which would be somewhat annoying
EDIT I lied, you dont have to open text edit, ill work on this for you
Something like this should get you started. Save it as a Stay Open application.
Cheers,
Craig
property varname : (path to desktop as Unicode text) & "test.txt"
property vardata : (path to desktop as Unicode text) & "data.txt"
on idle
--read the file
set what_to_do to do shell script "cat " & quoted form of POSIX path of varname
--determine what to do
if (what_to_do is "Done") or (what_to_do is "Shut off") then
if (what_to_do is "Shut off") then
quit
end if
else
--put your code here
--change variable_data
set variable_data to "Whatever you want the data to be"
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of variable_data & " > " & quoted form of POSIX path of vardata
end if
delay 0.1
end idle
on quit
continue quit
end quit
