Set Schedule

[patgenn123]

I set a macro to run every second to check to see some conditions and "trigger a macro", but scheduling it every second really takes about 5 seconds to trigger.

 

Why does Macro Express seem so off?

 

-P

[rberq]

Go to Options | Preferences | Scheduler and change the timer interval to 1 second. My guess is, your interval is currently 5 seconds so that is the lowest scheduling interval that will be recognized.

 

I was trying to run a macro every 15 seconds, but my timer interval was 20, so it would only run once every 20 seconds.

[patgenn123]

rberg,

 

Wow! Thanks! That did the trick!

 

-P

[kevin]

The reason the macro schedule is set to check every 10 seconds is to conserve CPU cycles.

[rberq]

Kevin, do you have a feel for how significant IS that 1-second schedule checking? If one has a fairly modern PC, would ME soak up 10 percent of the CPU cycles? 1 percent? 1/1000th of 1 percent? Of course, patgenn wants his MACRO to run every second, and the macro might or might not use significant resources. But how about the ME scheduling logic itself?

[kevin]

With modern computers you probably won't notice much load at all. On an older computer or a shared server running Windows Terminal Services or Citrix the small load may be noticeable.