Please help on time automation

[niyaz]

Hello:

I want to run a program on specific minute of the clock, every hour. For example: the program will execute automatically on 12:25 pm, then again on 1:25 pm, then again on 2:25, and so on

 

Please help.

[BrewManNH]

Look in the help file for the macros @HOUR, @MIN. Also, look at the If statement in there.

[niyaz]

I looked into it. But I couldn't find it specific. And taking me very long . Could you please code?

Example:

I want to run notepad.exe in every 25th minute of every hour.

Thanks

[13lack13lade]

Windows Task Scheduler?

[DatMCEyeBall]

Global $fClose = False ; Global variable to indicate close HotKey press
HotKeySet("!{ESC}", "_Exit") ; ALT+ESC

While 1
    If $fClose Then ExitLoop
    If @MIN = 25 And @SEC = 0 Then ; @MIN will only be = 25 every hour
        Run("notepad.exe")
        ; Do other stuff here
    EndIf
    Sleep(10) ; Avoid high CPU usage
WEnd

Func _Exit()
    $fClose = True
EndFunc

[ajag]

While 1
    If $fClose Then ExitLoop
    If @MIN = 25 And @SEC = 0 Then ; @MIN will only be = 25 every hour
        Run("notepad.exe")
        ; Do other stuff here
    EndIf
    Sleep(10) ; Avoid high CPU usage
WEnd

 

But won't this start Notepad more than 100 times at "xx:25:00" ?

A-Jay

[DatMCEyeBall]

@SEC is 0 only every minute and @MIN is 25 only hour.

I don't see a problem.

Did you run it?

[ajag]

@SEC is 0 only every minute and @MIN is 25 only hour.

I don't see a problem.

Did you run it?

 

Opps... yes, now I see.

My mistake, must have been blind. Sorry ;-)

A-Jay

Edited December 18, 2013 by ajag

[JLogan3o13]

niyaz, please also note that (your experience in this thread notwithstanding), we do not make a habit of spoon feeding code to people. This forum is for those who would like assistance with their own scripts, rather than simply asking someone to do it for them. In the future if you have questions we are happy to help, but please be prepared to show us some of the effort you've already put into it.

Edited December 18, 2013 by JLogan3o13

[ajag]

Hi JLogan3o12,

I did not ask for something (I'm not the post opener).
I only misunderstood the code of DatMCEyeBall.

A-Jay

[JLogan3o13]

Hi, ajag. My apologies, I mean niyaz but was looking at your name. I have edited my post

[jdelaney]

This will run the script multiple times, since the loop is not sleeping for 1 second.

 

Global $fClose = False ; Global variable to indicate close HotKey press
HotKeySet("!{ESC}", "_Exit") ; ALT+ESC

While 1
    If $fClose Then ExitLoop
    If @MIN = 25 And @SEC = 0 Then ; @MIN will only be = 25 every hour
        Run("notepad.exe")
        ; Do other stuff here
    EndIf
    Sleep(10) ; Avoid high CPU usage
WEnd

Func _Exit()
    $fClose = True
EndFunc

 

 corrected:

While 1
    If $fClose Then ExitLoop
    If @MIN = 25 And @SEC = 0 Then ; @MIN will only be = 25 every hour
        Run("notepad.exe")
        Sleep(1000)
        ; Do other stuff here
    EndIf
    Sleep(10) ; Avoid high CPU usage
WEnd

Would still look into task scheduler for this...no point having a script running to only be used so infrequently

[DatMCEyeBall]

jdelaney,

I missed that, thanks for fixing it.

Edited December 18, 2013 by DatMCEyeBall