Zombie Timer?

[Indiaum]

 

 

Hi guys, 
 
I'm new to AutoIt and i need a explanation on Timers, because something is happening and i can't understand why.
 
I need a timer, so i did:

Global $TIMER = 0
Global $TIMERDIFF = 0

Main()

Func Main()
    While 1
    $TIMERDIFF = Round(TimerDiff($TIMER) / 1000, 1)

            ToolTip($TIMERDIFF, 100, 100, "Info", 1, 1)
        WEnd
    WEnd
EndFunc 

[UEZ]

You missed to set

Global $TIMER = TimerInit()

[water]

Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

You first need to initialize the timer using TimerInit.

[Indiaum]

Thank you very much for the extremely fast response. 

It was intentional, i thought that i could keep a timer stopped, and only use the TimerInit() to start it in a specific moment.

After the TimerInit(), is it possible to stop it?

[JohnOne]

TimerInit / TimerDiff are not something that runs, to stop.

It just compares two time stamps, yours might be from 1971 or something.

You needa to Sleep() too.

Global $TIMER = TimerInit()
Global $TIMERDIFF = 0

Main()

Func Main()
    While 1
    $TIMERDIFF = Round(TimerDiff($TIMER) / 1000, 1)

            ToolTip($TIMERDIFF, 100, 100, "Info", 1, 1)
Sleep(10)
        WEnd
    WEnd
EndFunc

[Indiaum]

 

TimerInit / TimerDiff are not something that runs, to stop.

It just compares two time stamps, yours might be from 1971 or something.

You needa to Sleep() too.

Global $TIMER = TimerInit()
Global $TIMERDIFF = 0

Main()

Func Main()
    While 1
    $TIMERDIFF = Round(TimerDiff($TIMER) / 1000, 1)

            ToolTip($TIMERDIFF, 100, 100, "Info", 1, 1)
Sleep(10)
        WEnd
    WEnd
EndFunc

I see, thank you.

[iamtheky]

 

It was intentional, i thought that i could keep a timer stopped, and only use the TimerInit() to start it in a specific moment.

 

After the TimerInit(), is it possible to stop it?

 

If I have interpreted this correctly you just want to keep a running time that can be started and stopped.  And timerinit can get by for this task (you are just starting it over and adding it to the last value),  search 'stopwatch' on the forums, but here is a crude example that will keep a running total of how long the gui has spent with the Start button pressed:

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#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

Global $TIMER = 0
Global $LastTime = 0

GUICreate("Test" , 400 , 400)
$ButtonStart = GUICtrlCreateButton("START" , 10 , 100)
$ButtonStop = GUICtrlCreateButton("STOP" , 100 , 100)
GUICtrlSetState($ButtonStop , $GUI_DISABLE)
$edit = GuiCtrlCreateEdit ("" , 200 , 1 , 200 , 400)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

while 1

Switch GUIGetMsg()
    Case $ButtonStart
        GUICtrlSetState($ButtonStop , $GUI_ENABLE)
        GUICtrlSetState($ButtonStart , $GUI_DISABLE)
        Main()
    Case $ButtonStop
        GUICtrlSetState($ButtonStop , $GUI_DISABLE)
        GUICtrlSetState($ButtonStart , $GUI_ENABLE)
        Stop()
    Case -3
        exit
EndSwitch

wend

Func Main()
    $TIMER = TimerInit()
EndFunc

Func Stop()
    $RunningTime = Round(TimerDiff($TIMER) / 1000, 1)
    $TotalTime = $LastTime + $RunningTime
    GUICtrlSetData($edit , GuiCtrlRead($edit) & $TotalTime & @CRLF)
    $LastTime = $TotalTime
EndFunc

Edited March 23, 2015 by boththose