Sleep command

[Bastiaan Olij]

Hi Reg,

That is just brilliant!

Cheers,

Bas

On 4/03/2015 3:59 pm, Reg Paling wrote:
> Hi Bas,
>
> An extract from my code for pre-6.1:  (Er, I don't know who would have
> written that comment in the code!)
>
> Calculate lvCheckFinishDateTime as
> dadd(kCentiSecond,pMillisecondsToWait/10,#D)
> Repeat
>    TCPPing ('invalidhost',256,100)      ;; This will provide some
> delay without using full CPU. If somebody has named their computer
> 'invalidhost' then the ping will be successful. This is not a big
> problem, and if someone is stupid enough to name their computer
> 'invalidhost' they deserve to have problems.
> Until #D>lvCheckFinishDateTime
>
> Cheers,
> Reg
>
> On 4/03/2015 3:50 pm, Bastiaan Olij wrote:
>> Rats, I need something in 6.0, not ready to move up to 6.1 yet..
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bas
>>
>> On 4/03/2015 3:48 pm, Reg Paling wrote:
>>> Hi Bas,
>>>
>>>  From the Studio v6.1 Whatsnew61.pdf:
>>>
>>>     sleep() Function
>>>     A sleep() function has been added to allow you to suspend method
>>> execution for a specified
>>>     length of time. The function sleep(milliseconds) suspends execution
>>> for the specified
>>>     number of milliseconds, and returns true if execution was suspended
>>> successfully or false if
>>>     an error occurred. Note this function is not available in
>>> client-executed methods.
>>>
>>> I wonder what sort of error could cause it to return false, and what
>>> you could do about it if you trapped it?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Reg
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