on idle not starting

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#1

I never worked with on idle so it may be a dumb question, apologies in advance. When I run the following script as script or as program it will never initiate the on idle command. Is there anything I need to do?

on run
	say "start"
end run

on idle
	say "repeat"
	return 10
end idle
#2

When you saved it as an application did you select “Stay Open”?

I’ve actually never used a idle handler, but that would be my guess.

#3

That was it!