JS Timer failing

[tooltrainer 12]

I'm trying to time the execution of my bot and display a message on completion of how long it ran. Here are the code snippets I'm using...

 

1. At the start of my bot goes:

 

var start = new Date().getTime();

 

2. At the end of the bot goes:

 

var elapsed = (new Date().getTime() - start) / 60000;

alert('Total elapsed time: ' + Math.round(elapsed*100)/100 + ' minutes.');

 

It works perfectly... UNTIL the bot navigates to any page other than the originating one. Then it loses the value stored in "start" completely.

 

Does anyone either know why this is happening, or a way to achieve the result I'm looking for?

 

Thanks!

 

Jonathan

[webautomationlab 21]

I'm guessing that when you nav, the javascript engine has to reload.

 

You should store the start time in a variable, then you won't have to worry about losing it in your js function.

[tooltrainer 12]

You should store the start time in a variable, then you won't have to worry about losing it in your js function.

 

yeah I tried doing that, can't get it to work either...

 

Here is what I've done:

node 1 -

set #start

eval "var start = new Date().getTime();"

node 2 - 

set #elapsed

eval "var elapsed = (new Date().getTime() - {1}) / 60000;"
{1} = #start

node 3 - 

set #final_time

eval "{1} - {2}"
{1} = #elapsed
{2} = #start

node 4 - 

set #timer_msg

alert('Total elapsed time: ' + Math.round({1}*100)/100 + ' minutes.');
{1} = #final_time

node 5 - 

run javascript
alert('{1}');
{1} = #timer_msg

 

Hopefully this makes sense... am I even remotely on the right track here?

 

Jonathan

[webautomationlab 21]

That "appears" good to me. You should use the UI Monitor to report those variables as they resolve. You can institute delays between nodes to give the stat monitors time to update. It may help you track down the issue.

 

Sorry I can't be more help, I'm not much of a js whiz. I can read what you wrote, but I am not sure how to improve it, or what specific details might be incorrect.

[Net66 54]

Do all the pages you navigate to have javascript in them? If they don't then eval won't work.

 

Andy

[tooltrainer 12]

Yeah they all do. I bet there's something really subtle that I messed up on... I'll keep messing with it and post back if I figure it out.

 

Jonathan

[tooltrainer 12]

*bump*

 

I was never able to solve this... anyone else have any ideas? I think what's happening is that as soon as i nav to any other page, I lose all the previously created javascript activity, and even though the values are being stored in variables, JS seems unable to access them at the end of the script.

 

Anyone else know how to time activity in UBot across multiple page loads?

 

Jonathan

[IRobot 43]

Have you checked all the values in post #3 are as expected?

 

An alternative solution is to try using Ubot's built-in System constant > $date, to access the current time.

[tooltrainer 12]

Ooooh that's a great idea! Duh... didn't even occur to me obviously. I'll try that... get date at start, date ad end, subtract the two... voila!

 

Will let you know what happens.

 

Jonathan