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Chris, I've read that you intend to add scheduling to AHK. I've also read that
your priorities for AHK functionality are geared mostly toward hotkeys and task automation. Easy task scheduling is high on my wish list.

Would it be practical, cost-vs.-benefit-wise, without bloating the code, etc., to add a When statement? In other words, one that continuously monitors the system clock and triggers an event according to the When statement expression.

Example usage:
I work alternate shifts and sometimes it gets a bit difficult to keep track of which shift I need to show up for on any given day/night, or I might want a reminder of when I need to get up early to show up for a meeting.



In the meantime, roundabout methods to do the same thing are welcome.
I've played around a bit using If statements and timers but haven't got quite the results I'm looking for.

I greatly appreciate all the work you and others of the AHK community have done, which have enabled me to create some of the utilities I've always wanted, without having to learn a regular programming language.

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You can program it with SetTimer and If statements just with a couple of extra lines od code.

Some kind of basic scheduling is planned, but I don't know when it will get done. Thanks for the syntax ideas.

Here is a related example: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtop ... =6402#6402

Thanks! Your scriptlet gives me something to work with. It avoids the bugs I had in my approach, like the scheduled action being performed more than once.