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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Wed 24 Oct 2007 05:58 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Quote:

This is the code I used to get this: 2.1837
which is the 2 seconds and 1837th of a second.


Well not really, that is .1837 of a second, which is not 1/1837, they are different numbers.

I can't see in this code where you have tried to follow my suggestion of dividing by 60, or taking the integer and fractional value.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Natasi   (79 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Tue 23 Oct 2007 01:30 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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This is the code I used to get this: 2.1837
which is the 2 seconds and 1837th of a second.


  note "" & (Timer() - dblTimer)

 Dim dblTimer
  
  dblTimer = Timer()
  
  For i=0 to 100000
  Next


The reason I have it with the note first is so it resets the timer after every note.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Tue 23 Oct 2007 11:13 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Can you show us the code you used? Then we can see where the error crept in.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Natasi   (79 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Tue 23 Oct 2007 04:12 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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I'm sorry Nick, I seem to be really bad at math, as I've tried all the setups I can and I either get a really large negative or the decimal moves way to far over. Would you mind showing me the correct way to put this into the note to show the minutes:seconds:milliseconds?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Sun 21 Oct 2007 04:27 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

Amended on Sun 21 Oct 2007 04:30 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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The basic idea is to take the number and divide by 60 to give minutes, then take the integer amount (I forget the exact function name, it might be Floor or Int) and then multiply it back. To take your example:


72.233719 / 6 = 1.20389531667

Take integer amount = 1  (ie. 1 minute)

Multiply it back: 1 * 60 = 60 (ie. that minute was 60 seconds)

Subtract from original:  72.233719 - 60 = 12.233719

That is now your seconds and fractions of a second. 

There is a formatting function or you could multiply by 100 and divide back, eg.

12.233719 * 100 = 1,223.3719

Take integer amount = 1,223

Divide by 100 again:  1,223 / 100 = 12.23

That got rid of the other decimal places.


If you happen to have more than 60 minutes you can repeat the technique to get hours.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Natasi   (79 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sun 21 Oct 2007 04:07 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Using this code, I am able to get the seconds and milliseconds just fine, but they do not transfer over to minutes if that much time has passed. Also, sometimes the milliseconds expand out 6 spaces, which is annoying. Does anyone know how I can adjust this?
Example of what it looks like: <72.233719>
Example of what I want it to look like: <1:12:23>

Dim dblTimer

dblTimer = Timer()

For i=0 to 100000
Next

note "<" &(Timer() - dblTimer) & ">"
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Posted by Gore   (207 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sat 25 Aug 2007 06:08 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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No, I asked you for help for my achaean one, it's daelok =p
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Posted by Rakon   USA  (123 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Thu 23 Aug 2007 02:57 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Gore:

That prompt script looks very....very familiar.
Possibly ever looked at, or have my or Batista's MUSHclient system??
Yes, I am a criminal.
My crime is that of curiosity.
My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
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Posted by Natasi   (79 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Thu 23 Aug 2007 01:33 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Hmm, I used that call and this is what I got:

Script error
World: Aetolia
Execution of line 12 column 3
Immediate execution
Type mismatch: 'PrintInterval'

What am I doing wrong?
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Posted by Shaun Biggs   USA  (644 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Thu 23 Aug 2007 12:11 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Heh, good policy. On the other side of the spectrum Linus Torvalds:
Quote:
I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.
It is much easier to fight for one's ideals than to live up to them.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Wed 22 Aug 2007 11:09 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Paul DiLascia from Microsoft Systems Journal used to put an amusing disclaimer in his source:


// If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia.
// If not, I don't know who wrote it.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Shaun Biggs   USA  (644 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Wed 22 Aug 2007 10:34 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Quote:
Is there a way to possibly set this up in VBscript? I would just need the Time with the milliseconds if possible.


Stolen from aspalliance.com:
Quote:
To time to millisecond accuracy you need to use a little known VBScript function called, of all things, Timer(). The Timer() function returns the number of milliseconds between 00:00 (12:00 AM Midnight) and the time it's called.


  Dim dblTimer
  
  dblTimer = Timer()
  
  For i=0 to 100000
  Next
  
  Response.Write PrintInterval(Timer() - dblTimer)
It is much easier to fight for one's ideals than to live up to them.
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Posted by Shaun Biggs   USA  (644 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Wed 22 Aug 2007 10:31 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Under Authors it states "Simimi/NickGammon/ShaunBiggs" I hope that is right and proper with the two of you?

Hey, I'm up for claiming even partial credit for anything that works :p
It is much easier to fight for one's ideals than to live up to them.
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Posted by Simimi   (40 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Wed 22 Aug 2007 10:10 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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So happy to hear it! Thanks for all of the help, it is greatly appreciated by the... looks like 5 people now using this plugin!
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Wed 22 Aug 2007 09:31 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Quote:

Under Authors it states "Simimi/NickGammon/ShaunBiggs" I hope that is right and proper with the two of you?


That is fine with me. :)
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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