Yes, that would work cause I have already used it, but I thought it was not very "elegant"! ;-)
The resource in question is the DB; I am still unsure how to avoid a dead lock or race conditions. I wish With provided a real example on this issue (rather than the assurance that there is always a QUERYTIMEOUT that kicks in). -----Original Message----- From: Alan Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Sleep & While + explanations wow, im amazed, i thought i had tried that before and it worked. well...you could always do it this way, not quite an infinite while loop but maybe close enough for your needs. This "feature" could also double as a timeout period :P <@for start=0 stop=100000000 step=1> <@if expr="(expression here)"> <@break> </@if> </@for> still doesnt help w/ the sleeping though. what kind of resource are you waiting on by the way? maybe with a little more info we could come up with an alternate plan of attack to this? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:28 AM Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Sleep & While + explanations > > I have tried that, but if Step=0, the execution does not enter the <@FOR> > loop. > The same is true if Stop < Start. > > Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 09:54 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Sleep & While + explanations > > you can use an <@for> like a while loop like so: > > <@for start=0 stop=1 step=0> > > <@if expr="(while expression goes here)"> > <@break> > </@if> > > </@for> > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:25 AM > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Sleep & While + explanations > > > > 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, > Mike Bravu > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
