On 29 August 2008, 03:07, Rick wrote:
> Interesting ... I have thought it would be interesting to have a
> counter - count down to an event for instance or count up (how many
> days since) in a cookie. I have not thought it a serious enough enough
> feature to suggest it :))
~~~
That's fairly easily done if you have an application that can
independently maintain a text file that contains the cookie. You then
use a PUT macro to insert the content of the text file into your
message.
For example, for a countdown to Christmas you could use the following
VBScript:
Dim Christmas, DaysToGo, Cookie, fso, f
Christmas = CDate("25 December 2008")
DaysToGo = DateDiff("d", Now, Christmas)
If DaysToGo > 0 Then
Cookie = DaysToGo & " days until Christmas"
ElseIf DaysToGo < 0 Then
Cookie = DaysToGo & " days since Christmas"
Else
Cookie = "Happy Christmas!"
End If
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fso.CreateTextFile("C:\temp\countdown.txt", True)
f.Write Cookie
f.Close
Set f = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
If you save that as (say) C:\temp\countdown.vbs you can call this with
the command
wscript c:\temp\countdown.vbs //B
(//B suppresses any dialog boxes the script might show) You can run
this as a scheduled task under Windows. In your template, include the
macro:
%PUT="C:\temp\countdown.txt"
This should be easy to modify to get a "countdown cookie" for your own
purposes.
HTH,
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