[jawsscripts] Re: Sleep timer using Jaws scripting.
- From: Andrew Hart <ahart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:01:23 -0400
Ah, if all you want to do is use the Foobar plug-in, why not write a
JAWS script to grab the current time, add two hours to it, open the
plug-in dialog and type in the relevant information. Then JAWS doesn't
need to handle the timing part, Foobar can do it itself. Just a
thought. But then perhaps you have other uses for this kind of thing as
well, so a complete JAWS sleep timer may be what you want.
Cheers,
Andrew.
On 15/06/2012 6:39 PM, David Truong wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Thanks mate for your help. I just wanted to make a simple sleep timer where
> you would enter the time for a set of commands to execute E.G. 2 hours. Then
> after after two hours, the set of commands you specified would be executed
> and then the timer would reset itself ready for the next time you wanted to
> use it. A use for this sort've sleep timer might be in Foobar where you are
> playing an audio book and you want to set the book to set a time marker after
> two hours and then stop the file. I realise Foobar has a scheduling plugin
> but you have to enter date, time etc every time you want to use it and you
> can't get it to put a time marker in the file.
>
> I will look at your suggestions though and again thanks mate for your help.
>
>
> David Truong
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2012 12:08 AM
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> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Sleep timer using Jaws scripting.
>
> Dave,
>
> You can use ScheduleFunction with GetSystemTime and the Run function.
> It's not clear to me if what you want is more of a general timer, which goes
> off at specific times, or a sleep timer, which goes off after a specified
> amount of time has elapsed. If you require the timer to go off at a
> particular time, then GetSystemtime will probably be more convenient to use.
> If you need the timer to go off after a specified amount of time has elapsed,
> then GetTickCount may be more convenient.
>
> As for scheduling functions and the like, provided you want the timer system
> to remain active in the background all the time while JAWS is running, check
> out the Cuckoo clock scripts for an example of how this can be done. Btw,
> looking back at those scripts, the one second scheduling used there is
> probably overkill and it would be more efficient to use a scheduling interval
> that shrinks as an event is approached and which becomes larger when events
> are distant. However, it all depends what degree of sophistocation is
> required of the timer, e.g., do you need to schedule just one event or
> multiple events at different times with different actions, and do you wish to
> be able to dynamically modify events and/or their times while the timer is
> running, etc. If you don't have the Cuckoo scripts any more, I can send them
> along; just let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
>
>
> On 14/06/2012 6:49 PM, David Truong wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I want to create a sleep timer using Jaws scripting. This sleep timer would
>> activate program specific commands or jaws specific commands or both when
>> the specified time is reached. I'd appreciate any ideas how I would go about
>> achieving this.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>>
>>
>> David Truong
>>
>> Email: blindboxer@xxxxxx
>>
>> MS Messenger: davidtruong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Phone: 07 3844 1678
>> Mobile: 0400 557 511
>>
>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/Changa181
>> Skype: blindboxer1967
>>
>>
>>
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