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66 Schedules
Now that we have seen a table of the scheduler fields, let’ s look at the event in
Example 1. Here are its fields:
Start Time: 1:46pm in the afternoon ( 13:46 military)
Start Date:
January 1
st
2000
.
Event:
COMMAND
event, this is ALWAYS set to COMMAND
Field 1, the string, defined as
Hello, world!BT ,
which is the Banner Text
command, telling the unit to set its banner’ s text to the string Hello World!.
Now let’ s finish up with the remaining fields
Example 2:
(New fields are in bold. kept on one line for clarity.)
T:14:46 D:01/1/2000 R:30 P:minute A:1.3.00 I:3:00 E:COMMAND 1:"Hello, world!"BT ;Repeats a while
We’ ve now added:
Repeat Number: 30
Repeat Period: minute
Ending Time: 3am in the morning (
3:00
military)
Ending Date: January 3
rd
2000
The Repeat Number acts as a multiplier of the Repeat Period. They should
be read in conjunction like this: “Repeat this event every 30 minutes”.
You may have noticed a slight change in the times and strings used in the
examples above. The events used in Example1 and the final one in Example3
are used in an example file on Information Station that you can run with
Schedule Builder (discussed below) to see how these actually operate.
The only field not discussed yet is a set .
Example 3:
T:1:00 D:11-28-02 R:4 P:Thursday S:November E:COMMAND 1:"Happy Thanksgiving!"BT