' yes it is a problem
' it stops when cell input occurs or an cancel = false dblClick
' the timer API generally bombs out EXCEL on these
' or program errors as VBA has no control over them
' this seems to work and is in a format hopefully easy to adapt to
' many simultaneous timed JOBS even an Array of Jobs.. will try it this week
' Harry
Option Explicit
Public RunWhen#, PopIntervalDays#, StopTime#
Public GiveUpDays#, GiveUpWhen#, PopTimesec#, TotalRunSec!
Public PopCount&
Public Const cRunWhat = "DoJob" ' the name of the procedure to run
Sub SetTimerJ1(Optional Timesec! = 1.2, Optional RunForSec! = 10, Optional GiveUpSec! = 20)
If Timesec < 0.04 Then Timesec = 0.05
' does about 150 per sec at .05 "
' does 50 per sec at .6 ????????????
' does 4 per sec at .9 ????????????
'iterations per sec =185-200 * Timesec ( .1 < t < .9 )
' if t >1 as int(t)
' or set Timesec about (iterationsNeeded -185)/200
'
PopTimesec = Timesec
PopIntervalDays = PopTimesec / 86400# ' in days
StopTime = Now + RunForSec / 86400#
GiveUpDays = GiveUpSec / 86400#
TotalRunSec = 0
PopCount = 0
StartTimerDoJob
End Sub
Sub StartTimerDoJob()
RunWhen = Now + PopIntervalDays
GiveUpWhen = Now + GiveUpDays
Application.OnTime RunWhen, cRunWhat, GiveUpWhen
' Cells(2, 2) = Format(" At " & Now, "yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss")
'Application.OnTime EarliestTime:=Now + PopTime, Procedure:=cRunWhat, _
Schedule:=True
End Sub
Sub DoJob()
DoEvents
PopCount = PopCount + 1
'Cells(8, 2) = PopCount
If Now >= StopTime - PopIntervalDays / 2 Then ' quit DoJob
On Error Resume Next
Application.OnTime RunWhen, cRunWhat, , False
Else
StartTimerDoJob ' do again
End If
End Sub
Sub StopTimerJ1()
On Error Resume Next
Application.OnTime EarliestTime:=RunWhen, Procedure:=cRunWhat, _
schedule:=False
End Sub