Automatically Shutdown Windows w/ Timer!

[the_short1]

thought ide share this little chunk of code.

It will shutdown your computer at the time given in the two Constants 'Hour' and 'Minute'

my main purpose for this, is i start some Bit Torrent downloads on my personal pc in the morning, and i like my computer to turn off before my step mom gets home from work, so if she goes on the family computer, the internet isnt slow, and she doesnt need to go onto my computer.

but of course, it has malicious fun written all over it

edit: the two shutdown commands can be made into a start menu shortcut, and add a custom keyboard shortcut to it, so with one combination of keys, you can shutdown your computer, without waiting for shutdown dialog box to come up!

IE: Ctrl + Alt + F4 , intsead of going to desktop, Alt + F4, wait, then Enter...

-kevin

code:

%% programmed by kevin f. aka the_short1, sometime 2005 const Hour : int := 14 % hour, remember 24 hour clock const Minute : int := 10 % minute var wind : int := Window.Open ("graphics:400;50,position:top;right,nobuttonbar,title:ShutDown At: " + intstr (Hour) + ":" + intstr (Minute)) colorback (black) cls color (white) var today : string var ret : int loop     today := Time.Date     View.Set ("title:" + "Time Left: Hours: " + intstr (Hour - strint (today (11 .. 12))) + " Minutes: " + intstr (Minute - strint (today (14 .. 15))))     if strint (today (11 .. 12)) = Hour then % hour         if strint (today (14 .. 15)) = Minute then % minute             put "Shuting Down Computer, Please Wait"             if not Sys.Exec ("C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\shutdown.exe -s") then  %% winxp shutdown                 if not Sys.Exec ("C:\\WINDOWS\\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows") then %% win98 shutdown                     put "Something Is Wrong, email short1@gmail.com"                 end if             end if             exit         end if     end if     Time.Delay (15000) end loop

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[TokenHerbz]

cool stuff, i dont want to test it :S, but if it works, awsome...

[Delos]

Interesting...I guess this wouldn't be too bad as long as no one was at the computer at the time. On the other hand, have *any* Turing programme running is bound to slow things down at least a little...but that's mostly Turing's fault.

[MysticVegeta]

great now all you have to do is add that to the startup folder

[Clayton]

thats pretty cool, i didnt think turing was capable of something like this, and the thought that it is is pretty... weird gj

[codemage]

You wouldn't believe the some of the things that Turing is capable of doing. It's limited in many aspects, yes, but it has a few power-toy functionalities of its own.

[MysticVegeta]

haha I guess he has stillnot seen the post I madea long time ago in off-topic, hehe

[md]

Technically it's just a timer program which calls another program when the timer runs out... nothing special about that. There is no turing "power toy" here, or really anywhere.

It is a nifty hack though... useless... but nifty...

[Thuged_Out_G]

well, i have XP and no windows folder in my C: drive

could you not use

code:

"%SystemRoot%\system32\shutdown.exe -s"

[the_short1]

Thuged_Out_G wrote:

could you not use

code:

"%SystemRoot%\system32\shutdown.exe -s"

I dont know, i never tried, but i will when i get a chance.

Being able to execute programs/command line is the power toy which makes turing fun

[md]

the_short1 wrote:

Being able to execute programs/command line is the power toy which makes turing fun

That's a power toy? Because almost every other language has a library that will let you do that too... infact it's pretty much required that they do in order to write some programs. Had turing lacked such an ability then it would be frightening; but that it doesn't is nothing to be happy for.

Like I said; it's an nifty hack for the fact that it does something semi-useful. But really it's not all that exciting.

[codemage]

So our group consensus is:

A - Turing is not the program which you would use if you wanted to code an algorithm to run the world monetary fund, compute a solution for world peace, or discover what is the question of the universe, life & everything? (To which we all pretty much know the exciting two-digit answer).

B - Turing has quite a bit of useability and clever features for a language that is crippled, dumbed down and sterilized for school use.

[Neo]

You can use windows scheduler if you dont want turing running alll the time.

[aldreneo]

This program is a good example how to use Sys.Exec

Good job

[Clayton]

codemage wrote:

So our group consensus is:

A - Turing is not the program which you would use if you wanted to code an algorithm to run the world monetary fund, compute a solution for world peace, or discover what is the question of the universe, life & everything? (To which we all pretty much know the exciting two-digit answer).

B - Turing has quite a bit of useability and clever features for a language that is crippled, dumbed down and sterilized for school use.

that is more or less everything, but as a starter language (weve been over this many times) it can be good, and is able to do many things, even if they aren't practical (like run a timer to shut down your comp lol) but to each his own, so whatever