GetTimerInfo
Script function

world.GetTimerInfo

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Type

Method

Summary

Gets details about a timer

Prototype

VARIANT GetTimerInfo(BSTR TimerName, short InfoType);

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Description

Gets details about the specified timer name.

You can obtain one of 26 "types" of information about the timer by specifying an "InfoType". The possible InfoTypes are:

1: The hour (short)
2: The minute (short)
3: The second (short)
4: What to send (string)
5: Script procedure name (string)
6: Enabled (boolean)
7: One shot timer (boolean)
8: "At" timer (if false, timer fires "every" hour/minute/second) (boolean)
9: Invocation count (long)
10: Times matched (long)
11: Date/time timer last fired (or was reset) (date)
12: Date/time timer will fire next (date)
13: Number of seconds until timer will fire next or zero if it is due to fire immediately (this might happen if the timer is due to fire but is disabled). (long)
14: 'temporary' flag (boolean)
15: 'speed walk' flag (boolean)
16: 'note' flag (boolean)
17: 'active when disconnected' flag (boolean)
18: Timer was included from an include file (boolean)
19: Group name (string)
20: Send-to location (long)
21: User option value (long)
22: Timer label (string)
23: 'Omit from output' flag (boolean)
24: 'Omit from log file' flag (boolean)
25: 'Executing-script' flag (boolean)
26: Script is valid flag (boolean)

The word in brackets indicates the "type" of data returned.
String: a character string (eg. "north")
Boolean: TRUE or FALSE
Long: a 32-bit number

The field "invocation count" is a count of how many times the script routine was called.
The field "times matched" is a count of how many times the timer matched. These two would normally be the same, unless scripting was disabled, or there was an error in the script file.

The meanings of the "send-to" field are:

0: World
1: Command window
2: Output window
3: Status line
4: Notepad (new)
5: Notepad (append)
6: Log File
7: Notepad (replace)
8: Command queue
9: Send To Variable
10: Execute (re-parse as command)
11: Speedwalk (send text is speedwalk, queue it)
12: Script (send to script engine)
13: Immediate (send to world in front of speedwalk queue)
14: Script - after omit

If the named timer does not exist, EMPTY is returned. If the name given is invalid, NULL is returned. If the InfoType given is out of range, NULL is returned. (Use "IsEmpty" and "IsNull" to test for these possibilities).

See AddTimer for a description of the meanings of the fields.

VBscript example

world.note world.GetTimerInfo ("my_timer", 2)


Jscript example

world.note(world.GetTimerInfo ("my_timer", 2));


PerlScript example

$world->note ($world->GetTimerInfo ("my_timer", 2));


Python example

world.note(world.GetTimerInfo ("my_timer", 2))


Lua example

Note(GetTimerInfo ("my_timer", 2))


Lua notes

Lua returns nil where applicable instead of an "empty variant" or "null variant".


Return value

The specified information about the timer, as described above.
An EMPTY variant, if the timer does not exist.
A NULL variant if the timer name is invalid.
A NULL variant if the InfoType is not a valid type.



See Also ...

Topics

DOC_aliases Aliases
DOC_defaults Default triggers/aliases/timers/macros/colours
DOC_starting Getting started
DOC_group Groups
DOC_plugins Plugins
DOC_timers Timers
DOC_triggers Triggers

Functions

FNC_AddTimer AddTimer (Adds a timer)
FNC_DeleteTemporaryTimers DeleteTemporaryTimers (Deletes all temporary timers)
FNC_DeleteTimer DeleteTimer (Deletes a timer)
FNC_DeleteTimerGroup DeleteTimerGroup (Deletes a group of timers)
FNC_DoAfter DoAfter (Adds a one-shot, temporary timer - simplified interface)
FNC_DoAfterSpecial DoAfterSpecial (Adds a one-shot, temporary, timer to carry out some special action)
FNC_DoAfterSpeedWalk DoAfterSpeedWalk (Adds a one-shot, temporary speedwalk timer - simplified interface)
FNC_EnableTimer EnableTimer (Enables or disables an timer)
FNC_EnableTimerGroup EnableTimerGroup (Enables/disables a group of timers)
FNC_GetInfo GetInfo (Gets information about the current world)
FNC_GetTimer GetTimer (Gets details about a timer)
FNC_GetTimerList GetTimerList (Gets the list of timers)
FNC_GetTimerOption GetTimerOption (Gets the value of a named timer option)
FNC_IsTimer IsTimer (Tests to see if a timer exists)
FNC_ResetTimer ResetTimer (Resets a named timer)
FNC_ResetTimers ResetTimers (Resets all timers)
FNC_SetTimerOption SetTimerOption (Sets the value of a named timer option)

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