Sleep command
Vik Shah
Vik at Keys2Solutions.com.au
Wed Mar 4 03:02:55 EST 2015
Bas,
I usually reserve that for command line calls only. It will throw up a black command prompt window, so that is there too.
Regards,
Vik Shah
> On 4 Mar 2015, at 17:07, Bastiaan Olij <bastiaan at basenlily.me> wrote:
>
> Hey Vik,
>
> Nope.. just waiting for some things to finish on a server so
> unfortunately sending it a call to start it that finishes it right away,
> and then polling it occasionally to see if its done. In this case I have
> a need to wait until its done before the user is allowed to do more.
>
> But good tip on the external program thought the downside of that
> approach is that Omnis will be unresponsive until the program finishes
> (oh the number of users that force quit our application because they
> think it has crashed.... )
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bas
>
>> On 4/03/2015 5:22 pm, Vik Shah wrote:
>> Bas,
>>
>> Would that external process be a command call?
>> If so, there is a difference between launch program and run program, providing a return value in launch program causes it to wait for that command to complete its execution.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Vik Shah
>>
>>
>>> On 4 Mar 2015, at 14:40, Bastiaan Olij <bastiaan at basenlily.me> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Does Omnis have a sleep function where it just pauses for a few
>>> milliseconds?
>>> I need to halt execution of a method for a brief period of time to give
>>> an external process a moment to finish and in this case I can't really
>>> solve it with a timer..
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kindest Regards,
>>>
>>> Bastiaan Olij
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> --
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>
> Bastiaan Olij
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