Script won't close files and open new ones 1

[Pedemonti]

Hi all! I have been in the scripting world for just a week so this will be a newbie question...

I have to make a script that runs 24hs a day and that at exactly 11:59PM the file in which it was capturing the output of the screen is closed and then it opens a new file with the new date. The thing is that the script I modified from aspectscripting.com is not working properly: it opens the first file but at 11:59PM nothing happens... The modified script is this:


;**** START ****
proc main

integer iDay, iMonth, iYear, iHour, iMin, iSec
string sFile

ltimeints $LTIME iYear iMonth iDay iHour iMin iSec

strfmt sFile "%02d%02d%02d" iYear iMonth iDay

set capture file sFile

capture on

while 1

if iHour == 11 && iMin == 59

capture off

ltimeints $LTIME iYear iMonth iDay iHour iMin iSec
strfmt sFile "%02d%02d%02d" iYear iMonth iDay
set capture file sFile

capture on

endif

pause 60

endwhile

endproc

;**** END ****

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[knob]

If you want the script to close and open capture files at 11:59 PM, then you want to check for iHour being equal to 23 instead of 11 (i.e. use military time). Other than that, everything looked OK at first glance to me.

http://www.aspectscripting.com

 

[Pedemonti]

Great, thanks... I'll check it.

I found another thing: when the script starts, I need to push the OK button so the script can start to capture the output. Is there any way to do that automatically?

 

[knob]

Is it asking you to select a filename? If so, add set capture query OFF to the beginning of your script. This will turn off that prompt.

http://www.aspectscripting.com

 

[Pedemonti]

Great! Thank you very much.... I'll try it

 

[Pedemonti]

I just checked the script again (it was not going to defeat me! he!) and I found that there was a line missing inside the WHILE statement and before the IF statement. The missing line is " ltimeints $LTIME iYear iMonth iDay iHour iMin iSec ".

I hope this might help anybody with the same problem I had.

Regards,
Pedemonti