Sleep("absolute-time") ?

[littleberry 0]

How would you implement this notion?

Suppose you want a certain script to begin

processing at 3:00 pm, but you need to be

able to start the script anytiime before that,

you need your first statement to be one

that will pause and wake up at 3:00 pm -

is there a command for that?

Littleberry

[Somerset 1,324]

$i = 0
While $i = 0
if $a = 15 then exitloop
sleep(50000)
$a = @HOUR
WEnd
the code to execute down here.

[scriptkitty 0]

Just use the time funtions:

Hotkeyset("{pause}","bypass"); hit pause to start before
$x=1
While @HOUR<>15 and $x=1
sleep(10)
wend
; at 3:00pm this will start

func bypass()
$x=0
endfunc

edit...

you can also have it start anytime after it with:

Hotkeyset("{pause}","bypass"); hit pause to start before
$x=1
While @HOUR<15 and $x=1
sleep(10)
wend
; at 3:00pm this will start

func bypass()
$x=0
endfunc

Edited March 30, 2004 by scriptkitty

[littleberry 0]

Many thanks!

Now that I see how to get the current time (using the @ sign),

I wrote this short "difference" code that worked - avoids looping.

$h1 = 15 ; start hour

$m1 = 30 ; start minute

$s1 = 00 ; start second

$tots = $s1 + (60 * ($m1 + (60 * $h1))) ; total seconds after midnight to start

$curs = @SEC + (60 * (@MIN + (60 * @HOUR))) ; elapsed seconds since midnight

$delta = $tots - $curs ; number of seconds to wait before starting starting

Sleep( $delta * 1000 ) ; sleep until 3:30 pm (I hope ...)

MouseClick("left")

I just checked it out and it works.

What I need is a way to pass the desired hours, minutes, and seconds

to the script when I run it - I'll see if I can read the help file as

to how to do that.

Thanks, this forum has some very helpful folks,

Littleberry