Hi Stefan,
This is why I think I need a sleep() function or
equivalent: to slow down an empty FOR or WHILE loop.
Mike.
From: Stefan Gonick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 09:58
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Sleep & While + explanations
You're not going to want to use either a @for or a @while loop
because it will consume significant resources on the server. If
you have a personal server on your computer, you can watch
that happen.
Stefan
At 12:25 PM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
I need sleep() (on the server side) to wait for availability on a locked resource ( without loading the CPU ).
If I use an external procedure (dos wait) I am not sure what is the delay needed to load the DOS interpreter; and I would prefer not to bind the the solution to an OS. Java can solve all this (provided it is already loaded) but I was curious to see if somebody found a simpler way.
I was aware of while action and that would work just fine; however that means I end up fragmenting a results page action; I'd rather use <@FOR> if I can make it act as a while (which can be done in all programming languages that I know), but I found no way to do that with witango.
I wonder, since there are <@TIMER> and <@FOR> metatags, why not <@SLEEP> and <@WHILE> as well? They are obviously closely related and I assume they cannot be that difficult to implement...
Thank you for all your suggestions.
Mike Bravu.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 03:28
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Witango-Talk: Sleep & While
Hello all,
Can anybody help me out with the Witango equivalents for:
1- sleep( milliseconds ); and
2- while( true ) { }
The solutions that I found are not acceptable:
1- except for using externals, if I try to use <@TIMER> it seems I burn the CPU, which is not what I want;
2- <@FOR> </@FOR> does not really work or I do not know how to setup Start/Step/Stop
If the solution is already explained in the documentation I apologize, I just could not find it.
Thank you,
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