Hi folks,
I’ve gone ahead and bought Tot and configured TB to watch updates. How does one force a Tinderbox refresh manually so that latest Tot text changes are reflected instantly please? If it is not possible to manually intervene, is there a setting to change the automatic update frequency?
Thanks, and hopes everyone is staying safe,
Jason
My understanding is the refresh cycle is that seen at the bottom of the Agents & Rules Inspector. I’m not aware of either and on-demand refresh or a setting to control speed. the latter seems unlikely as the ‘network’ processes need to dovetail with the agent/rule update cycle. I suspect that the bigger/busier the document there may be some impact on the network cycle time.
Probably only @eastgate can clarify this?
Thanks Mark.
It’s based on the watch dispatch queue, which runs about every 20 agent updates. You can see the cycle in Tinderbox Inspector:Agents and Rules.
Closing and reopening a document is a handy way to force this.
I’d not anticipated a need for a manual update. Could be done, but I’m not sure that it justify a menu item.
Note to the inquisitive reader: you won’t actually see the circular Network progress report animate unless your document has tasks to do (including agents, rules, edicts etc.).
Sorry if this is obvious, but how does one stop Tot being automatically executed and invoked when you don’t want it to be please? I’m not sure how to “turn it off” so to speak.
Set the attribute $Tot of the container to ""?
Thanks. That did the trick.
Could someone please tell me exactly what folder is being watched to gather Tot notes and move them into Tinderbox? A step-by-step guide would be awesome, but I will try to figure things out if I know what I am looking for.
It is explained in the aTbRef article here. In summary:
- via the File ▸ Watch ▸ Tot menu, you tell Tinderbox that you wish the current TBX to watch the Tot app
- Tinderbox makes a new root-level† container ‘Tot’ and adds a built-in prototype - as explained more detail at the link above.
- Read-only notes in that container mimic the contents of all/some of Tot’s notes #1 through #7.
The watch process is just that, not a synch. you cannot write to Tot or edit the watched note. The concept is that the Tot content is available within Tinderbox either to read/query in situ or to copy to other notes for further editting.
† what is ‘root’? See here.
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Thank you. I can now see how to make a container with Tot notes in it. I can see this allows a quick check of Tot notes. But is there a significant advantage over, say, just having Tot open alongside Tinderbox and copy/pasting the most important information into Tinderbox? Working in Tot alongside Tinderbox would allow me to edit notes and clean them up before pasting them into Tinderbox.
Not really a significant advantage; more like a convenience if you use Tot a lot.
Thank you. I really appreciate the helpful and speedy feedback.