Shoutbox

My plug-in needs to set some things every 30 seconds. Is there a good way to do it, or should I call an external program from my DLL?

In VB I guess?
Add a form, and add a Timer.
In the initialize function call:

Load Form1

And you can then use whatever you want, Form1.Timer1.Enable, Form1.Timer1.Interval.. Etc...

If you're working in C++, then let me know, and I'll knock up an example for that.

* Itsme-HcK lets raceprouk now.
If I can just keep the function running, just reply with that, I'll know what to do then.

To start the timer:
UINT timerID = SetTimer(NULL, 1, <delay in ms>, &TimerProc);

To kill the timer:
KillTimer(timerID);

To respond to timer events:
void CALLBACK TimerProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    // Code to respond to timer
}

Timers on MSDN

That will make my plug-in run all the time, while it is only supposed to be called once in the <number> minutes...

void CALLBACK TimerProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    // Code to respond to timer
    KillTimer(timerID);
}

Err, read what I said again.
I will have to parse the MSG's. (Which forces me to run the whole time.)

If you put KillTimer() in the TimerProc(), the TimerProc() will only be called once.

I don't know what you're trying to say... Off course your plugin is running all the time...that's usual for plugins...

If you want to do something every x minutes you just use raceprouk's code, and you place the code you want to execute in it.... You can also make a seperate dll for the code if you want to...