Good to know. Thanks...
Regards, Stephen Markson The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada 416.979.2431 x251 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike > Byerley > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 11:26 AM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: PAUSE for less than one second. > > These all work OK, but as Larry pointed out, when you use a while loop, > it > consumes the capacity of the processor, so NOTHING else that needs a > slice > of time within the span of time the while loop runs will function > properly. > The Sleep API consumes no processor cycles. That is the advantage and > it > doesn't require any mucking around with your time format mid stream. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Markson" <[email protected]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 10:20 AM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: PAUSE for less than one second. > > > We use option 1 in codelock to create a binary command file called DELAY > from the following ASCII file: > > -- Usage: RUN Delay USING <time in seconds to nearest millisecond> > -- Example: "RUN Delay USING 3.5" will pause for 3.5 seconds > SET V x REAL=.%1 > SET V TimeFormat=(CVAL('TIME')) > SET TIME FORMAT HH:MM:SS.SSS > SET V Start TIME=.#TIME,Delay INTEGER=(NINT(.x*1000)) > WHILE #TIME<(.Start+.Delay) THEN > ENDWHILE > SET TIME FORMAT &TimeFormat > CLEAR V Start,Delay,TimeFormat,x > RETURN > > Regards, > > Stephen Markson > The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada > 416.979.2431 x251 > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence > Lustig > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 11:33 AM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - PAUSE for less than one second. > > I want to pause each time through a loop, but only for 250 milliseconds > (a > quarter second). > > PAUSE FOR works fine for whole numbers of seconds. Is there any way to > pause for something shorter than a second? > -- > Larry >
