Pause until time of day

[dickep]

OK, I have an AutoIt app that does things. I want it to run every 5 minutes - that will include anything it does so as not to take up "extra" time.

I have tried a couple of things but cannot figure out how to add 300 seconds to _Now and then make a loop until that time happens.

Thanks in advance.

E

[rmarino]

You can place a sleep in the loop statement. For the trigger you need to be careful using the _NOW func because depending on when you start your script it could past the time you were checking for. Say you wanted the script to end a 5:00PM you could just use the @HOUR macro to check and exit on that. Many things you can do.

[dickep]

You can place a sleep in the loop statement. For the trigger you need to be careful using the _NOW func because depending on when you start your script it could past the time you were checking for. Say you wanted the script to end a 5:00PM you could just use the @HOUR macro to check and exit on that. Many things you can do.

So one could NOT use a condition that if the "now time" is less than "trigger time", stop the looping?

I tried using _DateAdd("s", 40, _Now()) and could not then display the result. Maybe something amiss here??

Thanks

E

[rmarino]

So one could NOT use a condition that if the "now time" is less than "trigger time", stop the looping?

I tried using _DateAdd("s", 40, _Now()) and could not then display the result. Maybe something amiss here??

Thanks

E

You could use the logic, and it should work.

Can you post your script so we can see where the script may have an issue?

[Paulie]

This wont work?

Do
Sleep(100)
Until @Hour = 18 AND @MIN = 31
Msgbox(0, "Time", "It's 5:30!")

[dickep]

$mWaitMsg = "Waiting.."
$tTriggerTime = 30
$tNewTime = _DateAdd("s", $tTriggerTime, _Now())
while _NowCalc() <= $tNewTime
                $mWaitMsg = $mWaitMsg & "."
    msgbox(0,"Pause..", $mWaitMsg, 1)
WEnd

MsgBox(0,"","Ended in 30 seconds"

Here is my snippet - hope it makes sense. I tried this and it does not seem to work -just, as with the energizer bunny, "just keeps on going and going and going......

Thanks

E

[Achilles]

Adlibenable("_FiveMinuteFunction", 5 * 60 * 1000)

While 1 
Sleep(20)
WEnd

Func _FiveMinuteFunction()
Msgbox(0, 'Time', 'Five minutes passed.', 2)
EndFunc

[rmarino]

This wont work?

Do
Sleep(100)
Until @Hour = 18 AND @MIN = 31
Msgbox(0, "Time", "It's 5:30!")

Yes that will work, I changed the time and it worked on my system. Same thing but using a variable to hold the time:

Do

$t = @HOUR &":"& @MIN

Sleep(5000)

Until $t > "18:30"

Edited February 15, 2008 by rmarino