I am running a script in the macro scheduler... and need a daily time check

[diamondrail]

If I am running a script, and once a day I need it to run another set of code within the script. How can I implement this? See attachment for the logic.

Thank you.

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Hi Diamondrail,

There's lots of ways of doing this. This is just one of them. It works with 0935 or 935. Whichever you choose.

For anyone wanting to use this method after 12pm, it uses the 24hr clock, so simply use 1335, 1435, and so on.

I included a small wait to avoid a tight loop :

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Label>Start
Hour>TheHour
Min>TheMins

If>%TheHour%%TheMins%=935
  MessageModal>Action script goes here
Else
  Wait>1
  Goto>Start
Endif

[Dorian (MJT support)]

How many other ways can our regular users think of to achieve this?

[Grovkillen]

I do it like this:

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//Check loop
Label>StartOfLoop
Hour>HH
Min>MM
Sec>SS
GoSub>CheckClock,%HH%:%MM%:%SS%
Wait>0.25
Goto>StartOfLoop

SRT>CheckClock
If>CheckClock_Var_1=12:00:00
//Send to sub
Endif>

//Add more checks

END>CheckClock

[JRL]

One more

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OnEvent>Time,0935,,RunDifferentLineOfCode

Label>RunLinesOfIrrelevantCode
  Wait>1
Goto>RunLinesOfIrrelevantCode

SRT>RunDifferentLineOfCode
  MDL>Its 9:35 am.%crlf%Now we wait a minute else we'd just keep running this Sub over and over until 9:36 am
  Wait>61
END>RunDifferentLineOfCode

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Thank you for those.

It's always so nice to see how other people do things.

No matter how long we've been doing this we never seem to stop learning.

[Grovkillen]

What I like about my approach is that you can add as many checks as you want and also send day (number) of the week, month or whatever to have long time tasks triggered in the same mechanism.