Timed actions

[gertsolo]

Hey,

I haven't had too much time searching the forum so if someone could point me out in the right direction, that would be great.

For a website I want to upload stuff, but I want to do it at night when the costs and loads are lower.

basicly I want to do these things at certain times (when I am asleep ;-)

Something like : at 23:00 do 'some actions'

is this possible?

I'm even looking into the possibility to autostart my computer just before the point the actions have to be done (if that is possible ?)

thx & grtz

[Beege]

Can you upload using ftp?

[gertsolo]

Can you upload using ftp?

Yes, but is not just uploading. There are also other things I want to execute before the uploads.

[TheGeneral]

You can schedule the execution of your app with Task Scheduler.

If that's not enough you can get the hour with Date functions and keep checking until a function has to be run.

About autostarting your PC, you should look at the motherboard BIOS and its manual.

Edited January 10, 2012 by TheGeneral

[gertsolo]

If that's not enough you can get the hour with Date functions and keep checking until a function has to be run.

that was my first idea, but I hoped there was a function for that, too bad...

Anyway I now do it like this:

While 1
  $time = @hour & ":" & @MIN & ":" & @SEC
  consolewrite ($time & @CR)
        if  $time = "16:17:00" Then
   MsgBox(4096, "time", $time)
  EndIf
  if  $time = "16:17:05" Then
   MsgBox(4096, "time", $time)
  EndIf
    WEnd

Problem with this is that I get several matches for that time. I mean that the while cycle goes faster that 1 second and thus the actions are performed several times. How can I prevent that and do just the action once?

I put in a sleep, but that's a bit dirty written, no?

Edited January 10, 2012 by gertsolo

[Dana]

First, you should put in a sleep, so the while 1 loop doesn't eat all your CPU cycles. But if you put in, say, sleep(1000), then you might miss the time. A better approach would be to use "greater than" instead of "equal" for the time comparison, and set a variable indicating that it's done, so it doesn't repeat.