Timer out of pace?

[careca]

Hi, can anyone confirm if this is off pace? Or is there something wrong? im getting about 4 seconds more, each 3 minutes...roughly 1 sec per min.

Got a box where i put the minutes to countdown, multiply by 60, then it should sleep 1 sec and refresh the count, until 0. right?

$timetosleep = $time * "60" ;$Multiplier
For $i = $timetosleep To 0 Step -1
ToolTip($i & ' Seconds', 300, 0)
Sleep(1000)
ToolTip("")
Next
MsgBox(4096, "info", "done")

[Melba23]

careca,

Sleep is not very accurate, as you have discovered. I would use the @SEC macro to check the time passing.

M23

[careca]

Hi, thanks for the fast answer, im confused, how can i use that macro?

Everytime i used macros was to hide windows and such, they were attached to some function,

the help file isn't being very helpful in terms of examples on how to use the macros. :\

[Melba23]

careca,

Try this:

$time = 1
$timetosleep = $time * 60 ;$Multiplier

$iCurrSec = @SEC
$iCount = 0

For $i = $timetosleep To 0 Step -1
    ToolTip($iCount & ' Seconds', 300, 0)
    While $iCurrSec = @SEC
        Sleep(10)
    WEnd
    $iCurrSec = @SEC
    $iCount += 1
    ToolTip("")
Next
MsgBox(4096, "info", "done")

M23

[careca]

Thank you, been playing around with this, and discovered that a single sleep with the time you want is VERY accurate, and what makes the delays in the long run is the rest of the script, this means i still got a delay with your script, what i've done, that seems to have the best results is a sleep of around 985 ms in the script i posted or a similar one. What i have to do is count the time the script takes to run, and discount that on the sleep. Never 100% accurate that's for sure. Thank you again.

$timetosleep = 120
Do
ToolTip($timetosleep & ' Seconds', 300, 0)
Sleep(985)
$timetosleep = $timetosleep - 1
Until $timetosleep = 0
ToolTip("")
MsgBox(4096, "info", "done")

[Melba23]

careca,

Just remember that the clock in your PC is not that accurate at all and so there will always be a timing discrepancy of some sort. You might find this post an interesting read.

M23