Fire event at particular time

[realin]

Hi friends,

this is my first post in the community, i am making a software, which sends interrupt at parallel port and starts a circuit. Now i am stuck at the point when i want to make it work automatic, like i want to set a particular time of the day and at that time the event should be fired within my program and then the stuff it gotta do.

What should be the approach like ? There should be a listener which checks the time after each second ? But that way it would be resource consuming and now accurate at all..

Please help me :(

[TRScheel]

Just run the program off windows scheduled tasks. Throw a parameter in there to identify what time it is, or what it should do, etc. Continue from there.

[realin]

Just run the program off windows scheduled tasks. Throw a parameter in there to identify what time it is, or what it should do, etc. Continue from there.

throwing parameter each second is expensive@ resources..

I donn wanna use scheduler.. Please help thanks

[realin]

Any suggestions guys ??

[Plater]

the scheduler would be the best if you want it to happen at specific times per day.

Although you could do it in your program, pretty easy to I think.
And doing a DateTime.Now really is NOT expensive in the resources.
Like very little if you just sit a loop going:

while(someCondition)
{
 DateTime mydt=DateTime.Now;
 if (TimeToFire(mydt)==true)
 {
 //do whatever it is you wanted to do
 }
 Thread.Sleep(1000);//wait 1 second
 //you can change that value to slow down or speed up the loop
}
 

public bool TimeToFire(DateTime mydt)
{
 bool retval=false;
 //do something to decide if the current time is the time you want to fire
 return retval;
}
 

[realin]

the scheduler would be the best if you want it to happen at specific times per day.

Although you could do it in your program, pretty easy to I think.
And doing a DateTime.Now really is NOT expensive in the resources.
Like very little if you just sit a loop going:

while(someCondition)
{
 DateTime mydt=DateTime.Now;
 if (TimeToFire(mydt)==true)
 {
 //do whatever it is you wanted to do
 }
 Thread.Sleep(1000);//wait 1 second
 //you can change that value to slow down or speed up the loop
}
 

public bool TimeToFire(DateTime mydt)
{
 bool retval=false;
 //do something to decide if the current time is the time you want to fire
 return retval;
}
 

thanks a lot dude, will give it a try :)
you rock :)