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Heya,

So basicly, when i click the desktop it shows it, when i "unclick it" it runs the time.exe which is a empty shell of code that lasts for 5 seconds and then hides the desktop. Is there any other way of going about this would wouldn't slow down the code. "if i put a sleep(5000) then the whole code is slowed down by 5 seconds whereas this way it will keep check every 500 mii seconds"

while 1
sleep(500)

if winactive("[Class:Progman]") Then
$hide=0
ControlShow("Program Manager", "", "[CLASS:SysListView32; INSTANCE:1]")
Else
if $hide=0 then
run("D\time.exe")
if proccessexist("time.exe") then
else
$hide=1
ControlHide("Program Manager", "", "[CLASS:SysListView32; INSTANCE:1]")
EndIf
EndIf
wend
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Put the above code in a function and call it every xxx milliseconds using AdlibRegister(function, xxx)

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AutoIt can't do two things at the same time. With AdlibRegister is stops execution of the main code every xxx milliseconds, calls the specified function and then returns to the main code.

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Hmm a intereseting function but that means every 250 sec my script loses focus for the check "as my script also runs lots of mousepos checks to show applications and taskbars but thanks for the post :D

@Blue i ran ur code, and it didn't really seam to do anything :S but the idea was soild and helped me with an answer :oops:

if winactive("[Class:Progman]") Then
$hide=0
$loop = 0
ControlShow("Program Manager", "", "[CLASS:SysListView32; INSTANCE:1]")
Else
if $hide=0 then
$loop = $loop + $num
if $loop = 5 Then
$hide=1
ControlHide("Program Manager", "", "[CLASS:SysListView32; INSTANCE:1]")
EndIf
EndIf
EndIf

Every main loop, it adds 1. So 10 loops = 500 per loop = 5 sec delay works nicely :rip:

Alot more so then running a extra exe ^^

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My code was example code showing you how to use the timerinit and timerdiff functions. Look them up in the help file. _DoSomething is a bogus function that does NOTHING because ... well ... the function calling it doesn't exist.

I'm not here to spoonfeed you code. Engage your brain and you'll figure it out....

My code will call the undefined function every 500ms or so ... you just have to write what it's bouncing out to go do.

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If you change Blue_Drache's code to the code below it will show you how to delay it correctly, his code resets the timer every time through the loop.

$temp = TimerInit() ; this has to be outside the while loop
While 1
    if TimerDiff($temp) > 500 Then
      ConsoleWrite("Timer reset again" & @LF)
      $temp = TimerInit() ; Resets the timer
    Else
        sleep(10); so the script doesn't overload the CPU
    EndIf
WEnd

This will display a ConsoleWrite in SciTE if you run it from there.

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I didn't mean it like that Blue :D I did add the function and name, and when that failed i replaced the function with a msgbox "as i use msgboxes for finding out where code is breaking" and nothing really happened. Thats what i ment :oops:

Your code with _DoSomething() replaced with a Msgbox. Running the code after 500 Mili seconds should make the msgbox appear but nothing happens :rip:

While 1
   Sleep(10)
   $temp = TimerInit()
   if TimerDiff($temp) > 500 Then
      MsgBox(4096, "Test", "This box will time out in 10 seconds", 10)
      $temp = TimerInit()
   EndIf
WEnd

Looking at BrewManNH post it does seam like the first TimerInIt() was in the wrong location, preventing the code from working correctly :) but its still nice to have a more professional timer coding then my old exe or loop ideas :D

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