Timer Events

What operating system?

And by "doing something", do you mean the OS starts a program? or an already-running program that you wrote does something?

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How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

sorry, Windows XP, and an already running program does something. ...although, i would preferably just have the OS start the program-i didn''t know that was possible.

at, cron.

AT is for the controlled part...I can already get that, but is there anything (that you know of) to get an event based on the time?

...anybody know how to do this???

First thing that comes to mind is the task scheduler...though i'm not sure if that's exactly what u had in mind.

If it is you just go to Start->Settings->Control Panel->Scheduled Tasks. Hope that helps if that is what you are after

[edited by - rhouve on April 23, 2003 1:34:29 AM]

well inside of a program's code. i've seen a bunch of 3rd party programs that have it, and i need it for one that i'm making right now, (it's the only thing left in the program) and i looked on the C++ docs and it looks like it's called a timer event, but they don't really show how to set it up.

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Thanks for the suggestion though, rhouve!

[edited by - shortguy465 on April 23, 2003 1:52:14 AM]

This is something else I thought of maybe it will help...


#include <time.h>

//The the following somewhere else

tm* Time;
time_t tempTime;


//Get current date and time
time(&tempTime);
Time = localtime(&tempTime);


So okay what this does (hopefully) is set "Time" equal to the current time everytime that the above two lines of code are executed. "Time" is a structure with things like hours, seconds, minutes, day, month, etc. So you could possibly just keep updating Time and check it against whatever time that you want and then put your code that you want to execute there. Maybe this is more along the lines you were looking for? Hope that helps.

You can also write a bot.

Find the current time and set a future time to do something. Then sleep for the appropriate number of milliseconds. Or poll the clock.

Look up Programming Bots, Spiders, and Intelligent Agents in Visual C++ from MicrosoftPress. It is entirely devoted to this subject.

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Original post by Oluseyi
at, cron.

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not on windows.. Unless they''ve been ported recently..

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