hi i made a script and i want it to start over every 4 hours all the script !

[omercraft]

hi i made a script and i want it to start over every 4 hours how can i do this ? (all the script)

thanks omer

[XaelloNegative]

You can add the whole script in a loop then add a sleep at the end like:

while 1

~your script here

Sleep(14400000) //4 hours in milliseconds

Wend

 

[Danp2]

9 minutes ago, XaelloNegative said:

Sleep(14400000)

That's likely not a good solution because the script is essentially "hung" at that statement for the four hour duration. A better option would be to use TimerInit and TimerDiff.

[XaelloNegative]

1 minute ago, Danp2 said:

TimerInit and TimerDiff

can also be done like that.

On the other hand, as per experience in the office, i don't usually shutdown my PC for a couple of days and the script i have running usually runs for a couple days as well. In any case. Thanks for the added info.

~XN~

[omercraft]

how i can use the TimerInit and TimerDiff ?

 

[Ascer]

@omercraft

You can use _Timers.au3 to control actions without freezing Main script.

#include <Timers.au3>

Local $hGui = GUICreate("Test")
Local $iDelay = 5000 ; run script after 5s
Local $fEnabled = False

ConsoleWrite("Script will now wait " & $iDelay & "ms until enable Module." & @CRLF)

Func Example($1, $2, $3, $4)
    $fEnabled = True
EndFunc

HotKeySet("{esc}", "ExitProgram")

_Timer_SetTimer($hGui, $iDelay, "Example")

Func ExitProgram()
    Exit
EndFunc

While 1
    Sleep(100)
    If $fEnabled Then ConsoleWrite("Function running now." & @CRLF)
WEnd

Or even simple example

Local $iDelay = 5000
Local $iStartTime = TimerInit()

ConsoleWrite("Script will now wait " & $iDelay & "ms until enable Module." & @CRLF)

While 1
    Sleep(100)
    If TimerDiff($iStartTime) > $iDelay Then ConsoleWrite("Script is running now." & @CRLF)
WEnd

 

Edited February 17, 2018 by Ascer

[KickStarter15]

@omercraft,

There are samples given in help file where you can check what you need to know, everything was stated there on how to use TimerInit() and TimerDiff().

Also, show us what have you've got so far for us to help more...

[Juvigy]

You can also use the Task Scheduler to create a task for that.