Multiple loops at once

[Smitro]

How do I get 2 loops rolling at once?

For example:

While 1
 Msgbox (0, "Some Box", "Some Text")
 Sleep (3000)
Wend

While 1
 Msgbox (0, "Another Box", "Some Other Text")
 Sleep (5000)
Wend

How do I make both work together? So every 3 seconds I get an message and every 5 seconds I get another, regardless of what the other is doing.

The reason I want it, is so I can have something happen on one side of a window (in a label) and something else to happen on the other side (in another label).

[Vindicator209]

I'm not sure thats possible, but heres a work around:

$Timer1 = TimerInit()
$Timer2 = TimerInit()
While 1
If TimerDiff($Timer1) > 3000 Then ;Check timer 1 ">" because its not always dead-on
Msgbox (0, "Some Box", "Some Text")
$Timer1 = TimerInit() ;reset timer
EndIf
If TimerDiff($Timer2) > 5000 Then
Msgbox (0, "Another Box", "Some Other Text")
$Timer2 = TimerInit()
EndIf
WEnd

Letme check this real quick, to make sure it works

EDIT: made some changes but that should work XD

Edited March 17, 2008 by MethodZero

[FreeFry]

One other workaround is to have your script write two(or one if you wanna keep it "tight") temporary script(s), then run them from your (compiled) program,

have a look in the help file under the section Using AutoIt -> Command Line Parameters.

Edited March 17, 2008 by FreeFry

[Tomb]

i have always wondered this also.

[FreeFry]

Other than these workarounds there's no 'real' (real as in built-in) way to 'multi-task' like other multi-threaded languages do(autoit is single threaded, except for some functions) I'm afraid. :/

[Tomb]

Other than these workarounds there's no 'real' (real as in built-in) way to 'multi-task' like other multi-threaded languages do(autoit is single threaded, except for some functions) I'm afraid. :/

that is disapointing to read

[FreeFry]

Sorry. :/

There are some UDF's around on this forum somewhere that simulated multi-tasking by various methods though, worth to have a look into if you need to do several things at once.