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Trying to write a script that lobs up an alert box at a certain time preset by the user. However, the alert box never comes up. I've toyed with it all afternoon and everything I've tried has failed.

function the_TIME_now()
{
var date=new Date()
var hours=date.getHours()
var mins=date.getMinutes()
if (mins < 10)
mins="0"+mins
var secs=date.getSeconds()
if (secs < 10)
secs="0"+secs
the_time=hours+mins+secs
the_time_now=setTimeout("the_TIME_now()",001)
return the_time_now
while( eventStart != the_time_now)
the_TIME_now()
while (eventStart == the_time_now)
alert('NOW!')
}
var eventStart=prompt("What time does it start?","")

It doesn't work (I *think*) because the eventStart time is never and never can be the_time_now. I did a test for this and it proved moi correct. The problem is, I have no idea of how to resolve this.

Can you help?

Cheers

Wooooooo, it works :-D

Thanks a lot for that I may actually be able to watch something I want to now :-D

Any idea where I went wrong?

Cheers again :-D

Best I can do so far. Altered a Clock script a little.

Enter the time in 24 hour type, like '18:50' or '09:15', etc

You can ignore the bullet point check boxes, but if you change between them the Script seems to stop working, but try this for now

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cjh wrote:
> Don't appear to have anything like that I'm afraid. It's actually a
> tricky little script your after :o)

Hehe :-) It's sole purpose is to let me know when a programme I want to watch is starting because I always seem to lose track of time when I'm on the computer.
>
> When someone enters some input into the prompt box, what layout are
> you intending???
>
> i.e.
>
> 03:15
> 3:15pm
> 15:15
>
> ...etc?

at first I was after 14:30:00 type thang, simply because I couldn't be bothered to get rid of the seconds :-D

At the moment though it's 153000 because I wanted to actually get it working before I made it look nicer :-) I thought that was actually the problem at first but now I'm not so sure it is.

Don't appear to have anything like that I'm afraid. It's actually a tricky little script your after :o)

When someone enters some input into the prompt box, what layout are you intending???

i.e.

03:15
3:15pm
15:15

...etc?

cjh wrote:
> I tried a little alterations, and managed to completely crash my
> computer, so I won't suggest what I wrote.
>
Heh :-D

> I might have something saved somewhere though, check back in a little
> bit ok

Ok, cheers :-D

I tried a little alterations, and managed to completely crash my computer, so I won't suggest what I wrote.

I might have something saved somewhere though, check back in a little bit ok

cjh wrote:
> Did you create this yourself of get it from another Web Site/Book etc?

I wrote it myself.

Did you create this yourself of get it from another Web Site/Book etc?

cjh wrote:
> Not to sure about this one. The only thing I can see so far is that if
> you change the while bits to if statments, it will keep looping until
> the alert bit is true:
>
> if (eventStart != the_time_now) {
> the_TIME_now();
> } else {
> alert('NOW!')
> }

I tried that originally and it didn't work, and it still doesn't now. Bah. Thanks anyway.

Not to sure about this one. The only thing I can see so far is that if you change the while bits to if statments, it will keep looping until the alert bit is true:

if (eventStart != the_time_now) {
the_TIME_now();
} else {
alert('NOW!')
}