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Automatic timer messages

Started by atreyu Oct 25, 2000 at 7:11 PM 1 replies 200+ views

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Oct 25, 2000 at 7:11 PM

Hi, I have to find a way to make my (Win32/MFC/C++) program call a function at a given time every day. How would I do this without having to constantly check the time. Is there a way windows can send a message when it''s 2:00PM or something like that? Any help would go a long way. Thanks, Atreyu

Gaiiden

Oct 26, 2000 at 7:03 AM

Well, there are such things as system timers that you create with the SetTimer() function and they produce a WM_TIMER message every n seconds. You could get the current system time when the program starts (dunno how to do that) and then do a bit of math to see how many seconds it''ll take before 2 o clock and then in the WM_TIMER message handler just put in a code bloack to test for that amount of seconds. Kinda really dirty but it could work. Hope this helps.

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Friday13

Oct 26, 2000 at 7:30 AM

Use SetTimer to set timer and GetLocalTime inside yor TimerProc callback to get current time.

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