Posted: January 29 2003 at 19:47 | IP Logged

I think that for creating timed events that a selection for the daylight functions would be easier for newbies.

IE.  DAILY, SUNRISE, RUN MACRO, MY MACRO

Posted: January 29 2003 at 20:34 | IP Logged

That's a good idea! I'll second it.

Tony

Posted: January 31 2003 at 10:44 | IP Logged

You would Tony .

Alright, request granted...the next release will have Daily Sunrise, Daily Sunset, Daily Dawn, and Daily Dusk.

Additionally, I threw in Weekdays, Weekends, Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

Dave.

Posted: January 31 2003 at 20:05 | IP Logged

But of course!

Those other ones are also a great idea! I hope you weren't kidding!

Would there be a way to allow user declared functions like that?  Well, I suppose that could be done by assigning a bunch of GV's, say, once per day, as 0 or 1 (i.e. [Day That Ends in Y]=1). Nevermind! Is there a limit to the number of GV's?

Tony

Posted: January 31 2003 at 22:59 | IP Logged

Tony,

Nope, not kidding .  As a matter of fact Ive got a few more ideas rolling around in my head for Timed Events that Im going to explore.

GV's...the limit would basically be the size of your hard drive .

Could you explain a little more what you were talking about with user declared functions?  It might be something I can do.

Dave.

Posted: February 01 2003 at 09:38 | IP Logged

Dave,

Cool!

What I meant, was being able to do what I stated above, but, eliminate the defining call, I guess.

Take Weekday...

[Weekday] | if( dayname( today()) <> "Saturday" and dayname( today()) <> "Sunday"), 1, 0)

There would be a way to define this, and, have it evaluated when used (or, maybe you would just do a behind-the-scenes string replacement, to make it easy on yourself  ).

Did I explain it well enough? I'm not even sure...

Tony

Posted: February 01 2003 at 14:56 | IP Logged

Thanks Dave!

How about one for Daylight savings time? :)   I've got some light routines that I only need to run when daylight savings time is active....

Thank you for your support.   Looking forward to the next relese.

Posted: February 03 2003 at 10:31 | IP Logged

Tony,

I think I understand now.  Actually, you were right the first time.  The best way to implement this functionality would be with global variables.  Your weekday and weekend examples would be:

{WEEKDAY}  if(daynumber(today()) >= 2 and daynumber(today()) <=6,1,0)

{WEEKEND} if(daynumber(today()) = 1 or daynumber(today()) = 7,1,0)

You would then be able to use these GV's anywhere you wanted to compare for weekend or weekdays.  This would actually work quite well because you can have virtually an unlimited number of global variables and the access would be extremely quick because the call would come from an indexed database.

Dave.

Posted: February 03 2003 at 10:34 | IP Logged

Keith,

I can add a formula function which returns either a 1 or 0 whether it is daylight savings time or not.  You could then just have timed event's action type of sendkeys and do something like: ph_rtne(if(ph_daylightsavings(today()) = 1,ph_macro("YOUR MACRO"),0))

Dave.