[Gambas-user] Asking about a new Command

[Timothy Marshal-Nichols]

Have you tried:

	SHELL "sleep 0.5" WAIT

Though I do not want to stop you making a donation to Gambas.

Thanks

8-{)} Timothy Marshal-Nichols
<mailto: timothy.marshal-nichols at ...247...>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gambas-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:gambas-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of nando
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 08:04
> To: Benoit
> Subject: [Gambas-user] Asking about a new Command
>
>
> Benoit,
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to add a statement like:
>
> DELAY      <--deliberately let the kernel use the CPU for other processes.
> -or-
> DELAY 0.5  <--let 1/2 second go by, processes no events and
> not hog the CPU, deliberately let the kernel use the CPU for
> other processes.
>
> It would be similar to WAIT except it would not process events.
> It would simply keep the CPU from being tied up.
>
> For example:
>
> I need to wait a small amount of time inside a SUB, but I cannot
> have events processed until the sub is completed.
>
> I have tried using WAIT in both forms, but the events get processed
> incorrectly.
>
> Using a loop and looking at TIMER or TIME$ for the appropriate delay
> only uses the CPU too much.  A DELAY would make it CPU friendlier.
>
> Could this be done and what amount of time
> do you think it would take so I could calculate a donation ?
>
> -Fernando
>
>
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