Loop time with increment of 5min

[johnhill]

Hi,

I have below code that I would like to do loop with increment of 5min to avoid a long list. The target_time is the part that need 5min increment.

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target_time = 1100
target = %A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_DD%%target_time%00
EnvSub, target, %A_Now%, Seconds
Sleep, % target * 1000 + 25000 ; milliseconds + delay 

[johnhill]

Am I asking question that is easy to figure out or hard to figure out?

[Blackholyman]

Im not really sure what your asking for

if i run your script modified like this

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target_time = 1100
target = %A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_DD%%target_time%00
EnvSub, target, %A_Now%, Seconds
sum := target * 1000 + 25000 ; milliseconds + delay 
msgbox,,, % sum

I get a negative number ( don't think you can sleep negatively )

please try and reword what you're trying to do...

[just me]

Maybe? I'm not sure what you're after:

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#NoEnv
target_time = 1100
; for testing
target_time = %A_Now% ; current date-time
EnvAdd, target_time, 5, Minutes ; add 5 minutes
StringMid, target_time, target_time, 9, 4 ; get the HH24MI part of the date-time stamp
; end of test code
target = %A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_DD%%target_time%00
Loop
{
   loop_target = %target%
   StringMid, loop_time, loop_target, 9, 4 ; for testing (see above)
   EnvSub, loop_target, %A_Now%, Seconds
   If loop_target <= 0
      break
   sleep_time := loop_target * 1000 + 25000 ; milliseconds + delay
   ToolTip, loop_time:`n%loop_time%`nloop_target:`n%loop_target%`nsleep_time:`n%sleep_time% ; for testing
   Sleep, %sleep_time%
   ; ... do what you want after the sleep
   EnvAdd, target, 5, Minutes
}
MsgBox, Exit!

[johnhill]

Im not really sure what your asking for

if i run your script modified like this

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target_time = 1100
target = %A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_DD%%target_time%00
EnvSub, target, %A_Now%, Seconds
sum := target * 1000 + 25000 ; milliseconds + delay 
msgbox,,, % sum

I get a negative number ( don't think you can sleep negatively )

please try and reword what you're trying to do...

If you run the script before 1100 as stated in target_time, it would result in negative.

I want to shorten my script by using loop. But have no knowledge of looping time by every 5 minutes.

Example part of my current script

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CountSleep:
target = %A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_DD%%target_time%00
EnvSub, target, %A_Now%, Seconds
Sleep, % target * 1000 + 25000 ; milliseconds + delay
return

targer_time = 1100
GoSub CountSleep 
my task macro

targer_time = 1105
GoSub CountSleep 
my task macro

targer_time = 1110
GoSub CountSleep 
my task macro

targer_time = 1115
GoSub CountSleep
my task macro

[johnhill]

Maybe? I'm not sure what you're after:

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#NoEnv
target_time = 1100
; for testing
target_time = %A_Now% ; current date-time
EnvAdd, target_time, 5, Minutes ; add 5 minutes
StringMid, target_time, target_time, 9, 4 ; get the HH24MI part of the date-time stamp
; end of test code
target = %A_YYYY%%A_MM%%A_DD%%target_time%00
Loop
{
   loop_target = %target%
   StringMid, loop_time, loop_target, 9, 4 ; for testing (see above)
   EnvSub, loop_target, %A_Now%, Seconds
   If loop_target <= 0
      break
   sleep_time := loop_target * 1000 + 25000 ; milliseconds + delay
   ToolTip, loop_time:`n%loop_time%`nloop_target:`n%loop_target%`nsleep_time:`n%sleep_time% ; for testing
   Sleep, %sleep_time%
   ; ... do what you want after the sleep
   EnvAdd, target, 5, Minutes
}
MsgBox, Exit!

Thank you for your help. Although I didn't understand your code well, your code did provide me with a solution. I tested with 1 minute and added msgbox after %sleep_time%. It is good. I like in fact you added the tooltip. It really help me to track where the code is running.