Why Sleep Function Max At 24 Days?

[forger]

Just out of curiosity, why is the Sleep function working for 2147483647 milliseconds max? Anything stops it?

[SpookMeister]

A better question might be why someone would want to use a sleep for anywhere near that long.

(Obviously I don't have a real answer to your question)

[forger]

Well dunno, maybe someone wants to make a scheduler

[SpookMeister]

I'd have it check the time/date at a reasonable interval. That way you would have the option to kick a job off even if the system was off when it should have fired.

Also the app will not be frozen until the job fires.

Edited April 6, 2006 by SpookMeister

[SmOke_N]

I agree, I'd do the date and time... but just for the sake of arguement.. how long would this sleep?

Sleep(2147483647)
Sleep(2147483647)

... If you needed to go that route for whatever reason lol...

[forger]

I was speculating heh. Hmmm, I suppose they could use the task scheduler for that.

Hm, that brings up another question: Is it possible to schedule tasks silently with command line? If so, how?

Edit: A very nice solution by SmOke_N, as usual

Edited April 6, 2006 by forger

[MrSpacely]

I was speculating heh. Hmmm, I suppose they could use the task scheduler for that.

Hm, that brings up another question: Is it possible to schedule tasks silently with command line? If so, how?

Edit: A very nice solution by SmOke_N, as usual

Unplug the pc speaker and its silent.

But scheduling things is easy in autoit

$sched1 = 0
while 1
    if (@hour == 12 AND @min == 50) AND $sched1 == 0 then 
        run("notepad.exe")
        $sched1 = 1
    endif
    sleep(15000)
wend

This would start notepad every day at 12:50 wich is checked every 15 seconds

you could add invinite schedules in the loop.

Ofcourse you could make it so it reads a ini file wich contains all schedules and tasks wich should be done

(and ofcourse you can add year and date checks)

Edited April 6, 2006 by MrSpacely

[forger]

Ok silent = unattended

Thank you all for your suggestions, you never know when I might need it heh.

[herewasplato]

...Is it possible to schedule tasks silently with command line? If so, how?...

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...ndpost&p=116238

[blindwig]

I was speculating heh. Hmmm, I suppose they could use the task scheduler for that.

Hm, that brings up another question: Is it possible to schedule tasks silently with command line? If so, how?

Edit: A very nice solution by SmOke_N, as usual

On Windows XP you can use SCHTASKS

On Windows NT you can use AT

On Windows 9x I'm pretty sure you have to use a 3rd party utility or library.