timer

How To Set Timer in Cakephp?

My objective is to run a function every seconds. And check some time based functionality. For example, In my application I have five groups of users. Each of the users have a particular task. And allotted a particular period of time. The task firstly assigned to the lower level(ie, 5th level) Users. If that users couldnot able to clear ...

jquery :: animation/timer pausing?

Hi there, I have setup a jquery based marquee, This works perfectly fine until I have attempted to add in pausing the marquee on hover. On hover it pauses it fine, But upon resuming there is a gap after the current marquee. What would be causing this? A working example is at: http://202.78.151.195/marquee.html The javascript is at...

Time actions in Python

Hi! I want to run a part of my loop for a certain time: 60 seconds. Afterwards I set a boolean flag and continue at another point. Does Python have something like a stopwatch? Maybe this is OS specific: it's targeted against a Linux env. Sleeping a couple of seconds is easy... no question. ;) I want the opposite. ...

Refresh UI with a Timer in WPF (with BackgroundWorker?)

Hi, guys. Here's my concern. We have an application in WPF that shows data via ObservableCollection. After 5 minutes, I want to refresh the data. I thought I could use the System.Timers.Timer object for its Elapsed event and then call a BackgroundWorker to call the method that starts the job. The method is on a ViewModel class. But i...

Create a simple timer to count seconds, minutes and hours

Hi everybody (hi Dr.Nick!) I'm trying to create a pretty simple program that basically is a timer. I have three sets of labels, lbl_seconds, lbl_minutes and lbl_hours. These labels have the default value of 00:00 and I want the timer to change that for each label. I have googled this but I cannot seem to find any good info on it. Do I n...

Flash AS3 Timer extremely off

Hi, I'm using Flash CS4 with AS3. I want a timer to call a function at 50 ms intervals for 100 times. however the timer takes much longer than it should, which adds up to 1677 ms (1.677 seconds!) too much after 100 repeats. Am I missing something here or is the timer THAT inaccurate? Code function test(event:TimerEvent):void{ tra...

Java's Timer in PHP

Hi, I've readen a book that uses Java's Timer class... something like: final Timer timer = new Timer(); timer.schedule(new TimerTask() { public void run() { /* Does something */ timer.cancel(); } }, 5000); Is there a way to implement that in PHP? I'm rewrinting the book examples in PHP. Thank you. ...

maximum value for timer

what is the maximum interval for a timer to work in C#? is it the maximum value of int 32? can i change it to int 64? If i change, that is ONE big IF, will a timer still be working? ...

Is something wrong with my down counting in php and javascript?

Hi. I have a function in my game that you only can use every 2 min. So I have this code $next = strtotime ("+2 minutes"); This function to check if 2 minutes has passed: if(time() <= $next){ Here I find the time when you can do the function again: date( "00:i:s", $next - time()) What I need is the number of seconds until you can...

Timer task does not run

I am using Timertask in my web application to launch a background thread once every 24 hrs every day at midnight. So I have a ServletContextListener and in contextInitialized, I create a Timertask object timertask(say) and a Timer object say t. I call t.schedule(timertask, firstTime.getTime(), rescheduleMiliSec); where firstTime.ge...

How to implement a timer with interruption in C++?

I'm using the GCC compiler and C++ and I want to make a timer that triggers an interruption when the countdown is 0. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance. EDIT Thanks to Adam, I know how to do it. Now. What about multiple timers running in parallel? Actually, these timers are for something very basic. In NCURSES, I have a list of things. W...

Responding to httpRequest after using threading.Timer to delay response

Hey everyone, I'm trying to patch a testing framework built in python for javascript called mootools-test-runner (i'm a front end developer by day, so my python skills are pretty weak... really weak.) The use case is we want to be able to make a json request to the server and have it delay x amount of time before it returns -- original...

logical time versus physical time in ubuntu linux

Hi, i am measuring physical time between two events like this: #include <time.h> #include <sys/time.h> timeval wall_time0; timeval wall_time1; // start of period measurement gettimeofday( &wall_time0 , 0); ...stuff happening // end of period measurement gettimeofday( &wall_time1 , 0); return ( ( wall_time1.tv_sec - wall_time0.tv_...

Count down timer

I need a count down timer starting from 5 min. ...

Android chronometer ticks once and stops

I need to hide a TextView after 10 seconds. I thought I could implement a Chronometer and when elapsed time is bigger than 10000 millis I hide the TextView. My problem is that the chronometer only ticks once and then stops. Any idea what I've missed ? Activity ctx = this; ... private void ShowText(String message) { txtProce...

Accessing a Progress bar from (System.Timer)Timer Event gives "Cross-Thread Operation Not Valid)

Hi all, I am designing a form in which I have to increase a Progress bar while an operation is being performed simultainously (In other words, I am showing progress of this operation). This operation takes 50seconds. So I have used a System.Timer Timer to Increase the Progress bar. There isn't a single thread in my code. When I writ...

Metronome Timer slowdown (via Handler, or Threads too)

I have a simple, classic, statement that every 200 milliseconds plays a sound (a metronome). I wrote it using Handlers, and then in another way, using Threads. The problem is the same in both ways: when I press hardware home button, or also simply when I press a button to open a ListView, the metronome terribly slowdown for a while. T...

PHP Timer security

I have a timer on the site which the user will only be able to click on every * seconds/minutes/hours. Every user has a timer value in the users table where the values are written and read. The value in the database is the amount of seconds that the user will have to wait. I've figured out how to make the timer countdown from the correc...

Timer working improperly

I have a problem with a timer class based on a SDL timer. class CTimer { public: CTimer(): startTick(0), endTick(0), curTime(0), running(false) {}; void Start() { startTick += SDL_GetTicks() - endTick; running = true; }; void Stop() { endTick = SDL_GetTicks(); running = false; }; void Reset() { startTick = 0; endTick...

kernel mode timer

How can I have a timer in kernel mode such that a specified function in my driver is called approximately every second on Windows XP and above? I should be able to use all functions (in particular ZwQuerySystemInformation) in the function. I do not need a high resolution timer or millisecond accuracy or anything like that, I just need a ...