Sleep Inaccuracy

[krzyrice]

Hi I've done some research on the forums on how to get more precise sleep times (down to the millisecond). Basically, I have a very simple script that does something like this:

Send("{SPACE}")
Sleep(120)

and looping

It seems like someone has found a solution, but I have no idea how to incorporate it into my script. Can anyone help me out?

Solution

[SmOke_N]

Hi I've done some research on the forums on how to get more precise sleep times (down to the millisecond). Basically, I have a very simple script that does something like this:

Send("{SPACE}")
Sleep(120)

and looping

It seems like someone has found a solution, but I have no idea how to incorporate it into my script. Can anyone help me out?

Solution

You are dealing with milliseconds (Your example shows 120 milliseconds).

How much more precise are you looking at getting? There were some options that were shown in the example forum a while back that did it in nanoseconds I believe, but they didn't work on Vista/Win7 ( or maybe it was x64, can't remember ) I believe.

Edit:

Found the link:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=77905

Edited January 13, 2010 by SmOke_N

[AdmiralAlkex]

How much more precise are you looking at getting? There were some options that were shown in the example forum a while back that did it in nanoseconds I believe, but they didn't work on Vista/Win7 ( or maybe it was x64, can't remember ) I believe.

Believe me, they DO work. I use them all the time. Win7 x64.

[krzyrice]

Hi thanks for that link. I still don't know how to incorporate it into my script though. How would I replace the simple sleep(x) with the more precise sleep? Here is what my script looks like.

1Global $Paused
HotKeySet("{F9}", "Pause")
HotKeySet("{F8}", "Spam")
HotKeySet("{F12}", "End")

While 1
    Wend

Func Spam()
    While 1
Send("{SPACE}")
Sleep(970)
Send("{SPACE}")
Sleep(820)
Send("{SPACE}")
Sleep(5000)
    Wend
EndFunc

Func Pause()
while 1
sleep(100)
wend
endfunc 
  
Func End()
Exit
EndFunc

[MvGulik]

Just curious, but when would you use a nanosecond test.

Imagine it need to be a relative short test, or the multi tasking OS is going to mess with your results.

[krzyrice]

can anyone help me?

Edited January 13, 2010 by krzyrice

[SmOke_N]

can anyone help me?

You seriously think anyone wants to help you with a function called spam? We get enough of that without helping people that can't figure out how to implement functions that are spelled out for them.