[jawsscripts] Re: Sleep timer using Jaws scripting.
- From: "David Truong" <davidtruong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:39:33 +1000
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
Email: blindboxer@xxxxxx
MS Messenger: davidtruong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: 07 3844 1678
Mobile: 0400 557 511
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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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>
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