Sarah's scheduleMessage script.

[Andrew Kluthe]

Hey there!

I always forget to turn my p2p software on before I go to bed at night and I
have oodles of *legal* downloads that I need to catch up on. So, I decided
to try to make a simple timer that would open a program at a certain time
and close it again at a certain time everyday.

I came across Sarah Reichelt's scheduleMessage script on this list.

The problem I am having is, the messages get queued but they never disappear
from the pending messages queue and they never call the handlers I need. It
lets me know they are scheduled at correct times and I can see the messages
in the queue. Why aren't they executing?

the handlers for open and closing the program work just fine. They just
don't execute when they are supposed to.

I have included the entire script here for testing purposes:

on openUTorrent
   launch "C:/Program Files/uTorrent/uTorrent.exe"
end openUTorrent

on closeUTorrent
      set the hideConsoleWindows to true
      get shell("taskkill /IM uTorrent.exe")
end closeUTorrent

on setTimer
   scheduleMessage "openUTorrent", 17, 20
   scheduleMessage "closeUTorrent", 17, 23
end setTimer

command scheduleMessage pMessage, pHours, pMins 
   -- pHours is in 24 hour time 
   put the seconds into nextTime 
   convert nextTime to dateItems 
   put item 4 of nextTime into tHourNow 
   put item 5 of nextTime into tMinsNow 
   
   if tHourNow > pHours or (tHourNow = pHours and tMinsNow >= pMins) 
   then add 1 to item 3 of nextTime 
   put pHours into item 4 of nextTime 
   put pMins into item 5 of nextTime 
   put 0 into item 6 of nextTime 
   
   convert nextTime to seconds 
   send pMessage to this stack in nextTime seconds 
   
   --   Uncomment these lines for testing: 
   convert nextTime to short system date and long time 
   answer pMessage & " scheduled for " & nextTime 
end scheduleMessage 
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