Using timers with no gui

[4Eyes 10]

This is a related post to one I made in the GUI section of the forum, but is more focused on timers rather than GUI so hope this is ok.

I want to use a timer in a prog that has no GUI apart from a systray icon. Do I need to find the window handle of that to use a timer, if so how do I do that?

The code below just uses 0 for the first parameter of the call to _Timer_SetTimer() and it works. Is that an acceptable technique?

Thanks

4Eyes

#include <Timers.au3>

Global $SecondCounter

;******************************************

$SecondCounter = 0

$MyTimerID = _Timer_SetTimer(0, 1000, "CountSeconds")                               ; create timer, looks like it doesn't need a 'real' $hWnd

If $MyTimerID = 0 Then
    MsgBox(0, "Debug", "Failed to create timer")
    Exit
Else
    ConsoleWrite("$MyTimerID = " & $MyTimerID & @CRLF) 
EndIf

While(1)

WEnd    

;******************************************

; This is the callback func for the timer

Func CountSeconds($hWnd, $Msg, $iIDTimer, $dwTime)
    #forceref $hWnd, $Msg, $iIDTimer, $dwTime
    
    $SecondCounter += 1

    ConsoleWrite("$SecondCounter = " & $SecondCounter & @CRLF)
    
EndFunc     ; End of Func CountSeconds()

;******************************************

[Melba23 2,773]

4Eyes,

Go look in the other thread.

M23

P.S. That is as close to double posting as you can get without actually doing it. Please limit yourself to just the one next time.