Shoutbox

What do you think of a timer being executed every 1 minutes?
Will use too much memory or slow down the system?

I really don't know how much memory it will require and if MsgPlus Timer is a great memory consumer...

Thanks a lot one more time!

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Originally posted by tryxter
What do you think of a timer being executed every 1 minutes?
Will use too much memory or slow down the system?

I really don't know how much memory it will require and if MsgPlus Timer is a great memory consumer...

Thanks a lot one more time!

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Every one minute would take a lot of mem usage.
I recomend once every 4 or 5 minutes

Ok

Thanks a lot

I have a specific function of Screenshot Sender 4 being 100 miliseconds. Its not really that much of an issue.

tryxter, what do you want to do with the timer?

Timers don't take up a lot of memory at all.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
tryxter, what do you want to do with the timer?

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The objective is to search some text inside an ini file, and output that text.

Btw, I tested the memory consume using 5 secs timers, and I didn't notice any change at all, but I don't know if that change was visible...

(Ok, I found the edit option )

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Originally posted by tryxter

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
tryxter, what do you want to do with the timer?

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The objective is to search some text inside an ini file, and output that text.

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Ok... but what have timers to do with this?

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Originally posted by tryxter
(Ok, I found the edit option )

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cool

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Ok... but what have timers to do with this?

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Oh, well, the text read from the file has dates and times. When the timer is triggered it will read the ini file and will look for a time (that should correspond to the current time), and if this action returns 'true', it will do something (like display a toast or something, not decided yet).

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
cool

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lol

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Originally posted by tryxter

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Ok... but what have timers to do with this?

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Oh, well, the text read from the file has dates and times. When the timer is triggered it will read the ini file and will look for a time (that should correspond to the current time), and if this action returns 'true', it will do something (like display a toast or something, not decided yet).

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Why not make your schedular the other way around so you avoid intensive file read operations all the time:

Read the file only when you script starts and store everything in memory. Make a timer which fires every time interval (smallest amount defined in your alarms in the ini, I assume it would be 1000ms) and compare the current time with the time in memory, if it is the same or higher, fire the event.