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autoupdating text files using skill

skilluser132

Hi,

 I have a file which gets updated periodically. I use view(file) to open the file.

 I want this file to autoupdate.

I found a "view" function having that argument, but somehow it is not working for me.

command I am using: view(file "t")

g_autoUpdate: is an optional argument I want to use to enable autoupdate.

Please let me know if I am missing anything.

Thanks for the help in advance.

  • Hi,

    Assuming 'file' is a variable with the file name/path as a string then the second argument would typically be a 't' or 'nil' (without the quotes), for example:

    view(file t)

    If this still does not work then I'm not sure what your problem might be - is 'file' a fully qualified path to the file?  If not the SKILL search path is used to find the file, and if you have a non-unique file name the system could be picking a different one than the one that you are updating.

    Hope this helps.

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

  • Lawrence ,

     Thanks for the inputs. Yes, file : full path of the file.

      If I use  view(file) ;it displays the file.

     But if I use view(file t) I am getting following error: *Error* Invalid window specifier

      Is it like, it is not able to get which window to update?

     

    Regards,

    skilluser132

  • Hi,

    Ok, my bad, I didn't look at the documentation.  Here's the brief synopsis for the view() function:

    view(
  t_file
  [ g_boxSpec ]
  [ g_title ]
  [ g_autoUpdate ]
  [ l_iconPosition ]
  [ g_deviceMode ]
)
    => w_windowId / nil

    The autoupdate argument is not the second argument, or even the third, it is the fourth argument to the view() function. I think that you can give 'nil' for the boxSpec and Title arguments if you don't wish to supply them so that you can then supply the next argument for autoUpdate.

    Best regards,

    Lawrence.

  • Thank you Lawrence. This works for me.
    I appreciate your help.

    Regards,
    skilluser132

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