Solved Anybody know VB Scripting? Trying to fix an obsolete Gadget.

[FuturDreamz]

I've had this gadget That I really love, but it has a couple bugs. The problem is it's no longer supported by the developer. I had managed to fix one (simple formatting error), but the other one I located to being inside a VBScript file. Problem is, I know shit about Visual Basic. I'm pretty sure the problem is in a single line of code , and that would be easier to fix then rewriting the whole thing in JavaScript (especially since I most likely will be upgrading to Windows 8 soon)

The problem is with system uptime. it shows a big negative number, even though I restated earlier today.

Actually it seems to work fine on a computer running 32-bit Windows 7... But how do i fix this?

\js\uptime.vbs:

Function GetUpdateInterval
    UpdateInterval = 1
    System.Gadget.Settings.write "UpdateInterval", UpdateInterval
    GetUpdateInterval = UpdateInterval * 1000
End Function
 
Sub uptime
 
    Set objLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
    Set objWMIService = objLocator.ConnectServer(MachineName, "root\cimv2")
    Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
 
        For Each objOS in colOperatingSystems
 
            dtmBootup = objOS.LastBootUpTime
            dtmLastBootupTime = WMIDateStringToDate(dtmBootup)
            dtmSystemUptimeSecs = DateDiff("s", dtmLastBootUpTime, Now)
 
            intSecsTotal     = dtmSystemUptimeSecs
            intDays           = Fix( intSecsTotal / 86400 )
            intSecsRemaining = ( intSecsTotal - ( intDays * 86400 ))
            intSecsTotal     = intSecsRemaining
            intHours         = Fix( intSecsTotal / 3600 )
            intSecsTotal    = ( intSecsTotal - ( intHours * 3600 ))
            intMinutes      = Fix( intSecsTotal / 60 )
 
            uptimeTxt.innerText = intDays & " days " & intHours & " hours " & intMinutes & " minutes"
            setTimeout "uptime()", GetUpdateInterval()
        Next
 
End Sub
 
 
Function WMIDateStringToDate(dtmBootup)
 
    WMIDateStringToDate = CDate(Mid(dtmBootup, 5, 2) & "/" & _
    Mid(dtmBootup, 7, 2) & "/" & Left(dtmBootup, 4) _
    & " " & Mid (dtmBootup, 9, 2) & ":" & _
    Mid(dtmBootup, 11, 2) & ":" & Mid(dtmBootup,13, 2))
 
End Function

Attached is the Gadget itself.

 

[bbinnard]

It looks to me like the issue is not with the code but the internal functions it calls. For some reason they seem to return negative numbers...I have no idea why. Try putting a - in front of each occurrence of Fix. This should turn the negative value into a positive.

 

[FuturDreamz]

Actually I figured it's because the function receives a 64bit value, even when Sidebar is in 32bit mode. It's always off by 127 days, so I just changed line 19 to automatically add the difference, so it looks like this:

            intSecsTotal     = dtmSystemUptimeSecs + 10972800

Works fine now. Would need to be changed to work on a 32bit machine, but it's fine for my needs.