Run EA every few seconds

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old_man 2007.07.19 02:31

yarns90401 wrote:
What does this mean? How often will the code run?

depends on the second parameter of the mathmod function\ timecurrent returns the total number of seconds since 1970 , so by finding the reminder of the division of the current time by the number of seconds you want the code to be activated at , your problem will be solved , try it , the 17 means that the code will be executed every 17 seconds

18	old_man 2007.07.19 02:44 OR int count =0; //defined globaly int start() { if (count==5) // 5 is the number of ticks u want to skip { count =0; YOUR CODE } else count++; } hope this is easier :)

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fireflies 2007.07.19 11:35

yarns90401 wrote:
The idea should be to ignore the code in the start procedure if it just ran in the past n seconds. Does calling the sleep function prevent a subsequent tick move prevent the start procedure from executing?

No more than one call to start() at a time. If there is another tick coming in while current start() is still in process, the newer tick is ignored. So Sleep()-ing will ignore all those ticks.

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fireflies 2007.07.19 11:38

old_man wrote:

if (MathMod(TimeCurrent( ) , 17) ==0))// better to use a prime number 17,23,31 etc
 {
  YOUR CODE
 }

Nice but may not work all the time. Suppose last tick as at t=16, and because it's a slow day, the next one instead of at t=17, it comes at t=18. You'll miss one whole cycle, and may be more.

old_man 2007.07.19 15:54

fireflies wrote:

old_man wrote:

if (MathMod(TimeCurrent( ) , 17) ==0))// better to use a prime number 17,23,31 etc
 {
  YOUR CODE
 }

Nice but may not work all the time. Suppose last tick as at t=16, and because it's a slow day, the next one instead of at t=17, it comes at t=18. You'll miss one whole cycle, and may be more.

you are right, i realized that after i had posted it. however tthe second solution is better . note that it skip ticks not seconds

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Zap 2007.07.19 19:28

fireflies wrote:

Probably you're right. But why do you want to keep a script running forever? Doesn't EA do the job?

The script doesn't have to run forever, just until stopped (just like an EA) , an the question was: "Is there a way to run an EA every n seconds?" My code does exactly this. Why would one need this? I don't know, maybe I misunderstood something.

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