Putting a macro into a variable?

[wisem2540]

I have a script that is based on time.

Something like this.

$time = INIREAD ("File", "Section", "Crap")

Do

Sleep (600000); 10mins

until $time

In this case the INI reads @HOUR = 10

so it should resolve to

Do

Sleep(600000)

Until @hour = 10

If I do a msgbox(0, "test", $time), I get a box that says @hour = 10

If I remove the variable, it works. So my question is, can I not store a macro into a variable?

Edited April 17, 2013 by wisem2540

[water]

Macros can't be set by you (except @error and @extended). Read the content of the INI file into a variable and compare it like this:

Until @hour = $time

[wisem2540]

My original plan was to be able to set the INI to read the entire string

like this

[section]

time= @hour = 10 AND @WDAY = 1

So that anyone who wants to modify when this script runs, can just change that line in the INI.

I could specify a line for Hour, Min, Day, and everything else, but what if we dont want it that fine? Does this make sense?

[wisem2540]

For instance.

If I wanted the line to read

Do-Until @hour = 10 AND (@WDAY = 1 OR @WDAY = 2)

that would seem almost impossible via an INI

[water]

I would set weekday, hour and minute in your ini file like this. Then read the whole section using InIReadSection and the variables are set in your script.

[section]

hour=10

minute=0

weekday=1

In your script use something like

If @WDay = $weekday And @Hour = $hour and @Minute = $minute Then ...

[wisem2540]

I understand, but I still cannot specify multiple weekdays with this example. Is that possible?

[BrewManNH]

The way I would do it is like this.

$sTime = IniRead("test.ini", "section", "time", "10,1,2")
$aTime = StringSplit($sTime, ",")
Do
    ; something gets done here 

Until @hour = $aTime[1] And (@WDAY = $aTime[2] or @WDAY = $aTime[3])

This is the ini file

[section]

time = 10,1,2

[wisem2540]

Could I build this out to 7 Days, but then only specify 2 days in the INI? I assume it would be fine, since the rest of the array would come back as "" or null right?

[BrewManNH]

I'm not sure what it is you're asking. Can you clarify that a bit?

[wisem2540]

I think I may have it. What im wanting to do is exaclty what you have descrived. Except that I want the array to be able to grow and shrink based on the INI. Let me do some testing

thanks

[Bowmore]

This is an example of a method I use to run a process on multiple days and times, controlled by an ini file. You can also change the times in the ini file without having to stop the AutoIt script

ini file example

[RUNAT]
;Format is wday:hour:min<sparator>
time=1:10:35|1:15:00|2:10:30|4:00:30|6:20:00
endtime=2013-04-28_12:00

$sTime = IniRead("test.ini", "section", "time", "")
$sEndTime = IniRead("test.ini", "section", "endtime", "")
$timer=TimerInit()
Do
    sleep(30000)
    if TimerDiff($timer) > 900000 Then
        ; Reread ini file every 15 min so you can change the times without having to restart the script
        $sTime = IniRead("test.ini", "section", "time", "")
        $sEndTime = IniRead("test.ini", "section", "endtime", "")
        $timer=TimerInit()
    EndIf
   
    if StringInStr($sTime,@wday&":"&@HOUR&":"&@MIN) Then
        ; if its one of the time to run
        ; run some process or function
    endif
    ;check if it is time to stop the script
Until @YEAR&"-"&@MON&"-"&@MDAY&"_"@HOUR&":"&@MIN > $sEndTime

Edited April 17, 2013 by Bowmore

[MouseSpotter]

If you want to keep your original method - you could try the execute command

$value="@hour"
MsgBox(0,"Hour",Execute($value))

$value="@sec=10"
do
Sleep(0)
until Execute($value)

Edited April 17, 2013 by BryanFisk

[wisem2540]

If you want to keep your original method - you could try the execute command

$value="@hour"
MsgBox(0,"Hour",Execute($value))

$value="@sec=10"
do
Sleep(0)
until Execute($value)

Thanks but that does not work.

[wisem2540]

I'm not sure what it is you're asking. Can you clarify that a bit?

Alright, so my idea failed. Perhaps I am just frustrated with it....

So lets just talk about one line in an INI. Day of the week

I want to be able to specity as many days (up to 7) that the script would run

Example...

[section]

Hour = 06

Day = 1,2,3

Should translate to If @Hour = 6 AND (@WDAY= 1 OR @WDAY=2 OR @WDAY=3)

But I need it to be flexible enough so that if someone puts in more values, such as 1,2,3,4,7 that it will still know to continue adding @WDAY

If this more clear Brewman?

[wisem2540]

Thanks but that does not work.

Actually I think it does work! I was just typing it wrong. I will continue to test this.

Thanks so much!

[BrewManNH]

Here's a method I came up with that uses a "binary" representation of the days of the week in the ini file

Global $Mask[8] = [7, 0x1000000, 0x0100000, 0x0010000, 0x0001000, 0x0000100, 0x0000010, 0x0000001]
$sTime = IniRead("test.ini", "section", "Hour", "10")
$Days = IniRead("test.ini", "section", "day", 0x0101000)
Do
    Sleep(100)
    ; something gets done here
Until @hour = $sTime And $Mask[@WDAY] = BitAND($Mask[@WDAY], $Days)
ConsoleWrite("We're out of the loop" & @CRLF)

Here's the ini file.

[section]
Hour = 22
Day = 0x0001000

Each day of the week is represented by either a 1 or a 0, where you'd use a 1 to signify that you want it to exit the loop on that day of the week, Sunday is the left most digit after the 0x, and Saturday is the rightmost digit. You'll notice there are only 7 digits to the right of the 0x, that's not a problem as any bit not set is going to be a zero anyways. The Day in the ini file is set to Wednesday and all the rest are set to zero.

[Bowmore]

@wisem2540

Did you try my example in post #11 that gives you all the flexability and more that you are looking for.

[wisem2540]

Yes I did. While it does work, I prefered my original method. Mostly since I came up with it. While it may be not quite as neat as your example, It works for this purpose. Using the Execute command, outline in post 12 allowed me to use my own original idea.