timer functions

[KAX]

Hi AutoIt fans!

I would like to use a timer service to get awaked when timer has expired.

But it should work without polling. Means using sleep and waiting in loops.

Has someone got a good idea ?

[Zib]

$Timer_Expiration_Time = 10000 ;10 seconds.
$Timer = TimerInit()

Do
    Sleep(500)
Until TimerDiff($Timer) >= $Timer_Expiration_Time

MsgBox(0, "Time Expired", "It has been " & $Timer_Expiration_Time / 1000 & " seconds.")

Edited August 12, 2006 by Zib

[KAX]

This is not the 'optimal' solution I'm loolking for. Because it doesn't allow you easily to add more timers.

My favorite structure looks like:

...
$timer1 = CreateTimer()
StartTimer($timer1, 1000)  ;starts timer1, time in ms
while $performMainLoop ; main loop

    $msg = GUIGetMsg(1)
    Select
        Case $msg[0] = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit

                Case $msg[0] = $TIMEREXPIRED
                        ; check which timer
                        ; perform appr. action
                         StartTimer($timer1, 500); restart it
                ....
    EndSelect
Wend

[Zib]

$Timer1_Expiration_Time = 10000 ;10 seconds.
$Timer2_Expiration_Time = 8000 ;8 seconds.
$Timer3_Expiration_Time = 30000 ;30 seconds.

$Timer1 = TimerInit()
$Timer2 = TimerInit()
$Timer3 = TimerInit()

While 1
    Select
        Case TimerDiff($Timer1) >= $Timer1_Expiration_Time
            ;Do something...
            
            $Timer1_Expiration_Time = 5000
            $Timer1 = TimerInit()
            
        Case TimerDiff($Timer2) >= $Timer2_Expiration_Time
            ;Do something else..
        
        Case TimerDiff($Timer3) >= $Timer3_Expiration_Time
            ;Do something else..
            
    EndSelect
WEnd

Something like this? Maybe I am not understanding correctly.

[KAX]

...

Something like this? Maybe I am not understanding correctly.

Thanks Zib,

this solution consumes the CPU-power inside the loop, because it polls the used timers at every loop step. I prefer a solution ala WM_TIMER. Which winds up the timers and then only waits for messages. (Hope the waiting for messages does not steal the CPU from all the concurrent running processes!)

[/dev/null]

This is not the 'optimal' solution I'm loolking for. Because it doesn't allow you easily to add more timers.

My favorite structure looks like:

This is what you want: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=143556

Cheers

Kurt

[KAX]

This is what you want: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=143556

Cheers

Kurt

Thank you,

that helped me!

[KAX]

unsolved questions to timer functions

The timer function:

DLLCall("user32.dll","int_ptr","SetTimer","hwnd",$gui,"int_ptr",$nID,"int",2000,"ptr",0)

generate repeated timeouts. So good so far. But it seems, that the timers haven't designed to be operated in start-stop mode. (To restart a timer only when a certain event has occured). An other point is to change the timeout.

Can someone help?