As for 'bbcnews', this script was written in January 2002.
This is exactly the same as bbcnewswhizz, except we disable polling while processing. Sadly, I do not have any time statistics for this...
; Script to fetch news articles on BBC ceefax, in whizz time!
¤script "bbcnewswhz"
set A to status(scriptver)
if(A < 105) error("Script interpreter is too old, please upgrade to a newer version of !Teletext.")
channel(1)
getframe(100)
set A to status(pagefound)
if (A ! 1) error("Timed out trying to fetch page - is antenna connected?")
set A to 104
set E to 109
.fetchloop
getframe(A)
set F to A
add(F, 5)
getframe(F)
add(F, 5)
getframe(F)
add(F, 5)
getframe(F)
A++
if(A [ E) go("fetchloop")
set A to 104
set E to 124
And here's the difference...
poll_nomessages() poll_disable() poll_now() ; to ensure status window is removed(that's all folks!)
.processloop
set B to 1
selectframe(A)
set C to 1
.omittop
omitline(C)
C++
if(C [ 5) go("omittop")
set C to 22
.omitend
omitline(C)
C++
if(C [ 25) go("omitend")
storeframe()
A++
if(A [ E) go("processloop")
filewrite("<Teletext$Temp>.bbcnews")
set A to 104
set E to 124
.outputframes
appendframe(A, 2)
filewritebyte(10)
filewritebyte(10)
A++
if(A [ E) go("outputframes")
fileclose()
filetype("<Teletext$Temp>.bbcnews", &FFF)
oscall("%Filer_Run <Teletext$Temp>.bbcnews")
terminate()