Looking for Advanced Autosave Feature / Macro

Mickey0815 · Newbie Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 2

Hi !

Whle Writing some really important and long texts i manually save every 10-30 Minutes the file i am working at in this way: "filename_date_time.sxw".

i do it this way for 3 reaasons:

1. Openoffice crashes once in a while and i don't want to lose too much of my work

2. I sometimes intentionally or unintentionally delete or chance some text that i need back a few minutes/hours/days later. if this happens, i just open the older Versions of the File and have my old text back.

3. when i unintentionally delete the file or it is corupt for whatever reason i still have several older versions and don't lose too much work.

that is the reason why i can't really use the build-in autosave function.

Is there an easy way to upgrade the autosave function to save the file with a different filename on each autosave ("filename_001.sxw" "filename_002.sxw" and so on would work too...)

or is it possible to write a macro that does this ???

i know that i get a lot of files when i do that automaticly, but so what... i prefer having a lot of files in a backup folder than losing my work !

Thanks a lot !

Mickey

SergeM · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:26 am Post subject:

yes it is possible to write a macro but the problem is to launch it : normaly with a timer, but I think there is no timer in UNO API. If you want a button to save with a mouse click it is possible.
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Mickey0815 · Newbie Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 2

thanks for the quick answer.

i found out how to "autosave" with a button (did it already) but the "every x minutes" functionality would be the thing that makes it really useful..

anyway.... thanks for the answer !

Mickey

Cybb20 · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:51 am Post subject:

There are certainly some things you can do about it.
For example you have the Starbasic function GetSystemTicks() and 1 tick is 1/10 000th of a second I think.
I think DannyB can say much more about timing, hopefully he will join in on this discussion.

Christian
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