[Gambas-user] Empty While loop question

[Pablo Vera]

The problem is that the WHILE-WEND loop runs continously and doesn't 
allow the event to fire.

You need something like this:

   WHILE  Timer1.Enabled = True         'wait here until timer completes
     WAIT 0.1                           'allow events to fire
   WEND

But if you need to wait a specified amount of time, simply use the WAIT 
command like this:

   WAIT n

where n is the amount of time in seconds that the program should wait.

Saludos,
Pablo Vera

nando wrote:
> Question...
> Assume there is a timer on the form
> and the following 3-line code fragment is running
> (which is NOT inside the timer sub)
> 
> ...
> Timer1.Enabled = True
> WHILE  Timer1.Enabled = True         'wait here until timer completes
> WEND
> ...
> 
> Public Sub Timer1_Timer
> 
>   Timer1.Enable = False
> 
> End Sub
> 
> 
> The purpose is to wait a prescribed amount of time, which the
> timer is used for, at which time the timer is disabled and
> the program continues.
> 
> Question: Why does the timer event not actually fire??
> -Fernando
> 
> 
> 
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