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kenmcn816
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 Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 12:31 am Post subject: Taskicon to run program at a certain time |
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I have VDS 4 and have modified the taskicon script included in the examples folder. I can run the program correctly by right mouse clicking the icon and running it manually. But what I would really like to do would be to run a program at a certain time of day every day. I've tried writing in the loop to check for the time of day using the @DATETIME(t) event which does return the time format I need, however I can't seem to get everything to work correctly.
Any help would be great, thanks.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 12:35 am Post subject: |
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I don't think I can help you, unless you show us your script  |
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CodeScript
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 4:04 am Post subject: |
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Looks like you have made some small mistake somewhere. You may consider posting the evloop and the timer event below so that some one can help you.
( I hope you have done something like this pseudocode below):
Pseudocode:
| Code: | :EVLOOP
WAIT EVENT,0.1
GOTO @EVENT()
:TIMER
REM CHECK TIME
REM IF THE TIME MATCHES YOUR REQUIREMENTS
REM RUN somename.exe
REM ELSE
REM END
REM
REM REMOVE REM AND FILL VALID COMMNADS
GOTO EVLOOP |
Hope this helps
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Hortalonus
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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I would use an alarm timer to accomplish this...
| Code: | REM *** set the time you want the event to happen and start the timer...
%%time = 17:00:00
TIMER START,1,ALARM,%%time
:evloop
WAIT EVENT
GOTO @EVENT()
:TIMER1ALARM
REM *** put the code you want to execute when the timer goes off here...
INFO "Time to go home!"
REM *** restart the timer to have it go off again the next day...
TIMER START,1,ALARM,%%time
GOTO evloop |
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kenmcn816
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Hortalonus, your suggestion worked perfectly. For some reason I was thinking function when I should have been thinking command. I tried it last night and this morning and both times functioned without fail.
Thanks again for all of your help.
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Hortalonus
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad to help... it just so happened that I needed the same kind of thing a few weeks ago and that was the simplest way to do it.
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