Double timers

[Ultroman]

Hi

That's some marvellous work you guys are doing here. Who would've ever thought that AutoIt could contain AI?!

I just started scripting in this language, and I've tried looking through these forums and the help file, and I cannot find the answer to my question:

Is there no "GoTo myfunction" command in AutoIt?

What I want to build is:

-Initialization of various globals and locals and the script in general

--loop1

--start timer1

---do loop2 while "something"

---a timer2 function is running in here, doing some other stuff every 30 seconds

---when timer1 reaches 10 minutes, I want it to start over at loop1

---end loop2

--end loop1

-Exit

Arguments for ending the loops are in place (a simple ESC stroke will terminate the loop).

My quarrel is: What do I write to start timer1? And what do I write in loop2 to make it jump to loop1 after timer1 reaches 10 minutes?

Thanks in advance.

[qazwsx]

search the help file for fucntions (kinda like goto) and timer

[PsaltyDS]

For loops you want While/WEnd or perhaps Do/Until. For timers you have TimerInit()/TimerDiff(). Look them up in the help file and check out the demo scripts there.

Here's a demo that approximates what you described, at 5 and 30 seconds vice 30sec and 10min to make it less painful to test:

Global $Timer1, $Timer2 = TimerInit(), $Count

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_Quit")

While 1
    $Count = 0
    $Timer1 = TimerInit()
    While 1
        If TimerDiff($Timer2) / 1000 >= 5 Then
            $Count += 1
            MsgBox(64, "Count", "Count = " & $Count, 2)
            $Timer2 = TimerInit()
        EndIf
        If TimerDiff($Timer1) / 1000 >= 30 Then ExitLoop
    WEnd
WEnd

Func _Quit()
    Exit
EndFunc

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