Wait random # of seconds between X and Y seconds...

[hoye0017]

Hi everyone,
first time poster, long time lurker. I've become pretty familiar with Eventghost's native functions over the years but now I need a function that I don't exactly know how to accomplish. I'm hoping someone can help.

I need a mutation of the "wait some time" function. I need to have a macro action to wait a random amount of time that I can set some parameters to. And I need to be able to set the parameters every time I invoke it. For example, I may want to wait a random amount of time between 4 and 8 seconds at one point and wait a random amount of time between 10 and 15 seconds another time.

In my head, this looks like a function call in my tree like <action> "wait.rand(X,Y)" </action> but that's just my imagination. I dont know if I would need to a custom plugin or if its a function defined somewhere else that I call later.

I'm a bit of a Python rookie so I don't completely understand how functions are created/stored or called. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for looking.

[kgschlosser]

You would enter the values for START STOP and STEP.

this will do whole seconds.
if you want something that will do fractions of a second. let me know. I will code something up for ya

example start of 0
stop of 10
step of 2

will spit out one of these numbers

0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10

all ya have to do is add an action called Python Script into a macro. and copy and paste the code below

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import random

START = 0
STOP = 10
STEP = 2

waitTime = random.randrange(START, STOP, STEP)
# print waitTime

eg.plugins.EventGhost.Wait(waitTime)

[hoye0017]

this looks immensely helpful. Thank you. I may not get a chance to try it for about a week (Surprise biz trip). But I think this I may want to take you up on the fractional code. It would only need to be tenths of a second. Let me try this and I'll reply when I know more.

[kgschlosser]

no worries, let me know if everything works out for ya.. I will make up the random for floats.

[kgschlosser]

OK i am done.. i did this is an add-on to the EventGhost Plugin..

all You will have to do is extract it to c:\ProgramData\EventGhost\plugins it will do what is necessary from there..

then just restart EG. it will create a new action under the EventGhost plugin.. it will be the very last entry. It has a Configuration panel and all.

Let me know if you have any problems.

the file is attached

[hoye0017]

This works great! Thank you! I dont know if it will help others as well but thank you for posting it for public consumption.

[kgschlosser]

you're welcome it was not a biggie.. but if you are using EG 0.5 then it will show up in the plugin list but be colored red. it's not a plugin but an addon so it has been coded alittle different.. and it's not something that you would install in the tree.. but even tho it is red it is still doing it's job.