Close a window every 30 minutes?

[rahulkghosh]

Hey, I need some help making a script. I'm trying to work on something that will close a process(the process will start up again automatically after it is closed) every 30 minutes. I have the window name of the process and the file that its file name under task manager (.exe). Can someone help me with this?

[Paulie]

While 1
$Timer = TimerInit()
Do
Sleep(100)
Until TimerDiff($Timer) > 30*60*1000
ProcessClose(*precess.exe*)
WEnd

[rahulkghosh]

While 1
$Timer = TimerInit()
Do
Sleep(100)
Until TimerDiff($Timer) > 30*60*1000
ProcessClose(*precess.exe*)
WEnd

Ah, it says "Error: Missing separator character after keyword."

The porcess I want to close is game.exe. The error is around line 6 apparently.

[Paulie]

lol you were supposed to replace the "*precess.exe*" with "game.exe"

[rahulkghosh]

lol you were supposed to replace the "*precess.exe*" with "game.exe"

I know..

While 1

$Timer = TimerInit()

Do

Sleep(100)

Until TimerDiff($Timer) > 1000000

ProcessClose(game.exe)

WEnd

Still get error when I put this into an .au3 file and run it.

[Achilles]

"game.exe" not game.exe...

"game.exe" shows that it is a string, which is something the function (ProcessClose) needs to know.

[rasim]

Why used 2 loops, when can use one loop?

HotKeySet("{Pause}", "Quit")

While 1
    Sleep(1000 * 60 * 30)
    ProcessClose("game.exe")
WEnd

Func Quit()
    Exit
EndFunc

[tannerli]

Why used 2 loops, when can use one loop?

HotKeySet("{Pause}", "Quit")

While 1
    Sleep(1000 * 60 * 30)
    ProcessClose("game.exe")
WEnd

Func Quit()
    Exit
EndFunc

The idea is not bad but this script will not exactly do what Piano_Man wants because the Sleep() function uses seconds as unit while TimerInit()/TimerDiff() uses Milliseconds. Your script would sleep 500hours everytime between killing the process.

Just remove the *1000 to get the desired effect

Greets tannerli

[rasim]

The idea is not bad but this script will not exactly do what Piano_Man wants because the Sleep() function uses seconds as unit while TimerInit()/TimerDiff() uses Milliseconds. Your script would sleep 500hours everytime between killing the process.

Just remove the *1000 to get the desired effect

Greets tannerli

What? See in the help file, what uses a Sleep().

[Kip]

Paulie's script should work great. I dont see a reason why we're still talking about how many loops there should be. And if there should be Timer...() or Sleep()

Edited February 6, 2008 by kip