Ammend Count Sleep code to count run time code

[johnhill]

Hi,

Posted under http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/1 ... leepcount/.

I have this code that I wanted to used it to count run time of the script. It was used to count Sleep time.

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target_time = 1000
target = %A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_DD%%target_time%00
EnvSub, target, %A_Now%, Seconds
Sleep, % target * 1000 + 25000 ;  (milliseconds) + delaytime

I played around with it and the best I can get is

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target_time = a_now
Sleep 5123           <--- Added to test the script
target = %A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_DD%%target_time%00
EnvSub, target, %A_Now%, Seconds
Sleep, % target * 1000 ;  (milliseconds) 

The result I get is around -5300. How to fix the negative into positive number?

Thanks

[smokeyTBear2634]

Its not quite slick, but if there is always a negative, you can Just stringtrim...

[T_Lube]

I posted a response on the other forum that may solve it for you, though I don't quite get what you are trying to do exactly.

[johnhill]

Hi T_Lube,

Is my post not clear?

[just me]

I suggest to measure the time in milliseconds, because you easily can use the built-in variable A_TickCount (see the example).

[johnhill]

What your suggested is what am I looking for. Thank you.

[T_Lube]

More like I don't totally understand the purpose of it. What I recommend doing is using the function "Abs()" to take your negative value and return it as a positive value. I think that just me has the correct method though, set a variable to value of A_TickCount as start of script then using that var minus it from the new tick count that will give you total amount of ms from start to finish.

[johnhill]

Thank you T_Lube.