Sleep command

[Mike Matthews]

At last, a replacement for a $timer or a simple repeat loop looking at #CT.  I shall try and read more then.:)

Mike




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On 4 Mar 2015, at 04:48, Reg Paling <Reg.Paling at Lokanet.com> 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
> 
> 
> On 4/03/2015 3:40 pm, Bastiaan Olij 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..
>> 
> 
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