DONE: script to prevent near-sightedness!

[brotherS]

Thanks to mouser I found this:

14. Prevent near-sightedness!

Poor distance vision is rarely caused by genetics, says Anne Barber, O.D., an optometrist in Tacoma, Washington. "It's usually caused by near-point stress." In other words, staring at your computer screen for too long. So flex your way to 20/20 vision. Every few hours during the day, close your eyes, tense your body, take a deep breath, and, after a few seconds, release your breath and muscles at the same time. Tightening and releasing muscles such as the biceps and glutes can trick involuntary muscles -- like the eyes -- into relaxing as well.

So all we need is a bit of code what would let the user set the interval and a way it will alert the user to do exactly what's necessary!

This seems not only to be healthy but would also be a cool program to mention on lots of different sites, including lifehacker and stuff.


Source: http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=health&category=other.diseases.ailments&conitem=98f183b403517010VgnVCM200000cee793cd____&page=4

[mouser]

perhaps a more general solution would be a program that you could set the interval (and enable/disable), and it would blank the screen and place up one random picture from a set, until you hit a key; the pictures would be illustrations and text of different such techniques, whether they be like this, or repetetive strain excercises, etc.

[brotherS]

I prefer to not being forcefully interrupted in what I'm doing at that moment, but maybe a nagging popup or something like that would be nice

[skrommel]

How about my TakeABreak v1.1?

It supports user defined messages.

Skrommel

[brotherS]

How about my TakeABreak v1.1?

It supports user defined messages.

Skrommel

I read about TakeABreak, that's why I posted this new IDEA post: I would need a tool that won't block my desktop access completely, as useful as that may be for others

[skrommel]

Here's a little AHK script, I feel it's a bit simple for a full app.

Skrommel

Code

;EyesSore.ahk
; Show a message at a user defined interval
;Skrommel @2005    www.dcmembers.com


;Settings
interval=1                              ;time in minutes
message=How about a little break?       ;message to show

;Main
interval*=60000
Loop
{
  Sleep,%interval%
  MsgBox,%message%
}

[brotherS]

Thanks for the ideas, I changed it a bit to still know the details (about what to do) later and added

Code

#Persistent
AutoExec5:

because I have to use "GoSub, AutoExec1" etc. in my AutoHotkey.ini to run more than one auto-execute script from it without problems.

Code

;2005-12-02
;prevent near-sightedness
;Show a message at a user defined interval
;http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1676.new;topicseen#new
;Skrommel @2005    www.dcmembers.com
#Persistent
AutoExec5:
;Settings
interval=60   ;time in minutes
message=Poor distance vision is usually caused by near-point stress`n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------`nIn other words, staring at your computer screen for too long.`nSo flex your way to 20/20 vision. Every few hours, close your`neyes, tense your body, take a deep breath, and, after a few`nseconds, release your breath and muscles at the same time.`nTightening and releasing muscles such as the biceps and glutes`ncan trick involuntary muscles - like the eyes - into relaxing as`nwell.                                             -- Anne Barber, O.D.
;Main
interval*=60000
Loop
{
  Sleep,%interval%
  MsgBox,%message%
}

[brotherS]

I almost went crazy when trying to add another script - AutoExec6 - below that script from my last post. Somehow it prevents other autoexec scripts below it from being executed...

Any idea why and how to fix it?

[skrommel]

You could replace the Loop with a SetTimer...

Skrommel

[brotherS]

Thanks, that works! I just wonder why the AHK page does not warn about using loops then...

[brotherS]

Hmm, I have another problem with this: When I use

Code

Sleep,%interval%
SetTimer, EYES, %interval%

to prevent the timer being executed immediately after starting the script if will prevent the timer in the script below from being set correctly. How do I prevent this?