How Do I Reduce Cpu Cycles

[Guest Spike]

Greetings from Downunder,

I've just written this poor man's cookie cruncher for Opera 7.23

It works ok but uses 100% cpu cycles.

Any suggestion for recoding to reduce cpu cycles ??????

TIA

Spike

here is the code

Global $Paused

HotKeySet("{F10}", "Terminate"); example F10 to exit

$title=0

while $title=0

$title=winactive("The server wishes to send you a cookie")

if $title=1 then

;MsgBox(0, "Value =","cookie time")

;sleep(1000)

winkill("The server wishes to send you a cookie")

$title=0

endif

wend

Func Terminate()

Exit 0

EndFunc

[Gene]

Greetings from Downunder,

I've just written this poor man's cookie cruncher for Opera 7.23

It works ok but uses 100% cpu cycles.

Any suggestion for recoding to reduce cpu cycles ??????

TIA

Spike

here is the code

Global $Paused

HotKeySet("{F10}", "Terminate"); example F10 to exit

$title=0

while  $title=0

$title=winactive("The server wishes to send you a cookie")

if $title=1 then

;MsgBox(0, "Value =","cookie time")

;sleep(1000)

winkill("The server wishes to send you a cookie")

$title=0

endif

wend

Func Terminate()

  Exit 0

EndFunc

Put Sleep(100) in at the beginning or the ending of your loop.

[Guest Spike]

Thanks Gene,

That fixed it, but why ??

Any explanations ???

Tia

Spike

[Valik]

AutoIt runs balls out. Even though it was doing nothing, it was doing it very very fast and thus, using up cycles. By telling it to Sleep for 100 ms, you are literally telling it to slow down and pause for 100 ms between times the loop executes.

[Guest Spike]

Thanks Valik,

I sort of came to that answer myself after i sat down

and thought about it for a while!

Thanks for the help everybody.

Spike

[scriptkitty]

You can dramatically reduce autoit from 100%CPU to say 2% CPU by adding Sleep(1) or sleep(10)

Your popups would be virtually killed before they start without a huge CPU use.