infinitely script repeating

[krboun]

Hello everyone

I am quite new with AutuIt and i can not solve one problem.

I have scrip, works fine, but i want to repeat it in time period infinitely(example every 500 000 miliseconds) until manual stop.

I was thinking about very long "for" cycle and in each cycle "sleep" for required time.

But that is very weird. Do you know any better solution?

Many thanks

[Melba23]

krboun,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

Take a look at AdlibRegister in the Help file. It lets you run a function at reqular intervals.

M23

[water]

Put everything you have now into a function and call this function in a loop. Something like:

While 1
  _Your function()
  Sleep(500000)
WEnd

Func _Your_function()

; here goes your code

EndFunc

What is still needed is a way to tell the script to exit.

[jchd]

Use an infinite loop, HotKeySet to map (say Esc) to an exit function and AdLibRegister to launch your function every 500 seconds.

See if you can come up with a working script this way.

(Too late!)

[krboun]

While cycle works fine, thanks

but i don´t know how to y use AdlibRegister

script

Func _A ()
;something
EndFunc[/i]
AdlibRegister("_A",3000)

doesn´t do anything

Edited December 8, 2011 by krboun

[water]

Because this script doesn't run long enough to call function _A.

You need some kind of loop:

Func _A ()
    ConsoleWrite("*" & @CRLF);something
EndFunc
AdlibRegister("_A",3000)
While 1
  Sleep(10)
WEnd

Edited December 8, 2011 by water

[Melba23]

krboun,

You need to keep the script alive like this:

; Press ESC to exit
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "On_Exit")

; Produce a MsgBox every 5 secs
AdlibRegister("Fred", 5000)

; Keep script alive in an infinite loop
While 1
    Sleep(10) ; Important so as not to burn up the CPU
WEnd

Func Fred()
    MsgBox(0, "Adlib", "Hi there!")
EndFunc

Func On_Exit()
    Exit
EndFunc

All clear?

M23

Edit: Good evening water!

Edited December 8, 2011 by Melba23

[krboun]

I think i understand, AdlibRegister perform function during other part of scrip is running

in case above while cycle is infinite

and is there any way how to run script, or function in script in exact time (e.g. 6pm)??

[Melba23]

krboun,

Look in the Help file under <Macro Reference - Time and Date Macros>.

You will need to do something like this:

If @HOUR = "18" And @Min = "00" And @SEC = "00" Then
    ; Run the function
EndIf

M23

[kylomas]

krboun,

There are many ways to do either of what you are asking, however, you are asking for a couple very different things. PLease define your goal and show whatever code you've produced, so far.

Good Luck,

kylomas

[water]

Edit: Good evening water!

Hi Melba!

[krboun]

krboun,

Look in the Help file under <Macro Reference - Time and Date Macros>.

You will need to do something like this:

If @HOUR = "18" And @Min = "00" And @SEC = "00" Then
    ; Run the function
EndIf

M23

thanks a lot that is perfect, i am stlill getting used to

[krboun]

Hello i have a problem, my script si something like this:

while 1
If @HOUR="19" Or @HOUR="01" Or @HOUR="07" Or @HOUR="13" And @MIN="00" then
.....
....
....
sleep(1800000) ;sleep 5 hours
Else
sleep(50000)
EndIf
WEnd

this script should perform at 1,7,13,19 o´clock in infine loop but i don´t know why it doesn´t work , i found that it doesn´t work only when i work with computer because it worked in the evenng at 1 O´clock but in the morning nothing

[jchd]

Use parenthesis to express the correct condition you want.

If (@HOUR="19" Or @HOUR="01" Or @HOUR="07" Or @HOUR="13") And @MIN="00" then

[magodiez]

you miss a 0 in the 5 hours

sleep(18000000)

why are you sleeping 5 hours if you need 6 hours??

why don't do something like

while 1
  If (@HOUR="19" Or @HOUR="01" Or @HOUR="07" Or @HOUR="13") And @MIN="00" then
    $timeStart = TimerInit()
    yourFunction()
    sleep(21600000 - Round(TimerDiff($timeStart))) ;sleep 6 hours - execution time
  ;you don't need the else
  EndIf
WEnd
Func yourFunction()
  ...
  ...
EndFunc

[krboun]

sleep(18000000)

is there because the script is very short and i want only one cycle each 6 hours (so 1 minute would be enough) but if there is 18000000 script will do nothing for 5 hours and last 1 hour will check for requested time (so script don´t have to check time every 50 seconds (therefore in the end is sleep(50000).

i think my problem was missing brackes, i am still very new with autoit

[magodiez]

sleep(18000000)

is there because the script is very short and i want only one cycle each 6 hours (so 1 minute would be enough) but if there is 18000000 script will do nothing for 5 hours and last 1 hour will check for requested time (so script don´t have to check time every 50 seconds (therefore in the end is sleep(50000).

i think my problem was missing brackes, i am still very new with autoit

That's my point, if you only need a cycle every 6 hours, why don't you simply sleep for 6 hours (- execution time) after executing the cycle, so the script isn't checking the time in your computer every 50 seconds???

and if you really need to check it during the last hour, why 50 seconds and not 60???

Just trying to optimize it for you...

[krboun]

That's my point, if you only need a cycle every 6 hours, why don't you simply sleep for 6 hours (- execution time) after executing the cycle, so the script isn't checking the time in your computer every 50 seconds???

and if you really need to check it during the last hour, why 50 seconds and not 60???

Just trying to optimize it for you...

script can not sleep 6 hours because execution time is always different (it could be a few second or minutes) therefore after execution is 5 hours pause (just my estimate because of different lenght of script) and then i can look for 1 7 13 or 19 o´clock

50 second checking periond ... i dont know 60 would be also good i want be sure i can not miss correct time

[magodiez]

script can not sleep 6 hours because execution time is always different (it could be a few second or minutes) therefore after execution is 5 hours pause (just my estimate because of different lenght of script) and then i can look for 1 7 13 or 19 o´clock

50 second checking periond ... i dont know 60 would be also good i want be sure i can not miss correct time

That's why I told you to sleep (6 hours - execution time), this way you don't need to be checking... no matters the execution time, you can wait the exact time:

$timeStart = TimerInit()
yourFunction()
sleep(21600000 - Round(TimerDiff($timeStart))) ;sleep (6 hours - execution time)

Have you tried to do it with the Windows Task Scheduler??? May be a better solution to your problem...

Edited December 14, 2011 by magodiez