I wrote an applescript script that would loop forever refreshing an rss feed. I use it quite often so i though it'll port it over to xcode and make it neater. When i press a button to start, the program loops and it locks up, its working but it's frozen. How do I make a start stop button looping something without making the program freeze?
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Do NOT use an infinite loop, it will certain crash your app. Use NSTimer for that. NSTimer is used to execute a function in a period of time you set. If I wanted to create an infinite loop, I would set it to 0.1 seconds.
Hope that helps.
As far as I know, you cannot actually use NSTimer in an Applescript. What you might want to investigate is "Stay Open" scripts.
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