actually I looked at the launch help and found I could launch filename.exe||w and it will pause until that program is finished
________________________________ From: Mikeb <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 6:02:09 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Pausing within an EEP If the other process has the ability to write to a file on completion, you can have RBase check for the file. If it has the ability to write to the $Environ you can check for the value of the environment variable. You could do this checking in your eep in a while loop, but to keep from freezing the processor, you could use the windows API Sleep function called using DLCall. In your eep: set var vFound integer = 0 set var vLoop Integer = 0 set var vRet Integer = 0 -- next var vSleep is the ms to sleep set var vSleep integer = 500 If chkFunc('Sleep')) = 0 then STDCALL void 'Sleep' (integer) endif -- The Sleep function doesn't return a value but DLCall still has to have the syntax structure as if it does -- Set the max number of loops for your while loop to run before timing out while vLoop < 20 and vFound = 0 then SET VAR vret = (dlcall('Kernel32','Sleep', vsleep)) -- Some code to check for a file or environ variable -- if (the file or environment variable is found) then -- set var vFound = 1 -- else -- Set var vFound = 0 -- endif set var vLoop = (.vLoop + 1) Endwh ----- Original Message ----- From: "TOM HART" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 6:17 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Pausing within an EEP > I have an eep that first goes outside of Rbase to do something then with that I > proceed with the eep. If I put a pause 2 between the to processes it works, > however, with no pause Rbase with start doing its thing before the first is > complete. How do I get the first process to run and upon completion do the > second part. > Tom Hart >
