is it possible to trigger , start or stop a timer automatically if a certain criteria is met? so similar to a CRM ticketing tool, creating and saving a new tidler would automatically start a timer , or maybe creating a new tidler with a specific Tag would trigger a predefined duration ? On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 5:03:35 PM UTC+2 Jon wrote:
> Hi Eric, > > Whilst I can enter an alarm that repeats every day at > http://tiddlytools.com/timer.html, it doesn't work in my wiki - I can set > alarms once but the daily alarm doesn't retain the time for some reason. > Any ideas? > > Also, are alarms which have expired whilst the computer has been turned > off supposed to trigger when switched back on as I can't reproduce that? > > Regards > Jon > > On Tuesday, 18 August 2020 at 08:15:15 UTC+1 TW Tones wrote: > >> Eric, >> >> Thanks for doing that test. I will abandon the hta for this timer need. >> It was going to be my main implementation because it opens on boot of my >> computer. But the HTA depends on the IE hta component which I believe is >> deprecated. >> >> Although if this is the only but it can do more, >> >> Regards >> Tony >> >> >> On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 2:03:45 PM UTC+10, Eric Shulman wrote: >>> >>> On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 8:05:06 PM UTC-7, Eric Shulman wrote: >>>> >>>> On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 7:32:27 PM UTC-7, TW Tones wrote: >>>>> >>>>> An observation fyi but no expectation of remedy, my windows HTA >>>>> version the clock in the sidebar does not tick. >>>>> >>>> >>>> OK... I did a little testing myself. Here's what I did: >>> >>> 1) Open timer.html in my usual browser, Chrome >>> 2) Open empty.html from TiddlyWiki.com in a separate Chrome tab >>> 3) Use drag-and-drop to import the following tiddlers into empty.html >>> from timer.html >>> TiddlyTools/Timer/Ticker >>> TiddlyTools/Timer/action-timeout.js >>> TiddlyTools/Timer/Clocks >>> TiddlyTools/Timer/SidebarClocks >>> 4) Save empty.html to a local file (default download saver) >>> 5) From local filesystem, rename empty.html to empty.hta >>> 6) Double click empty.hta to start it >>> >>> What happens: >>> * The HTA opens as a stand-alone application window. >>> * The $:/temp/timer/ticker IS updating once per second. >>> * The Sidebar digital clock IS running. >>> * The Sidebar analog clock is NOT running. >>> * The display of the Analog clock has all three hands pointing straight >>> down, and all the clock numbers are in the center, along with all the tick >>> marks. >>> >>> This suggests that the problem is due to a failure of the HTA to handle >>> CSS "transforms" (which are used to set the position and angle of the >>> hands, numbers, and tick marks) >>> >>> -e >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2376d0f7-86d3-4876-b952-19c960dbdd02n%40googlegroups.com.
