[Gambas-user] wait vs sleep confusion, console works, graphically have strange behabior

[Tobias Boege]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote:
> From: Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...>
> > Sleep puts the program to sleep - literally. It just waits for a given time
> > to elapse and then resumes execution.
> all programs inherint and parent? !! ok thnks for clarification! but
> some details more:

I didn't say anything about a parent or inheritance, did I?

> >
> > Wait, OTOH, keeps the interpreter active by recursively calling the event
> > loop. This way, events can fire, the GUI can be updated, etc..
> ok but if i used waith in console? i do not note the behabior??? that's
> why i made the question as u see

What do you mean by "waith in console"? Assuming "waith" contains a typo,
how would you use Wait in console?

Do you mean: the Wait instruction in a Gambas program without GUI or do you
mean the "wait" program in a shell? Or do you mean you start an external
program in a shell from a Gambas program and then use Wait?

And... what "behaviour" do you mean after all? In the paragraph you
responded to above, I was talking about the event loop running when you use
Wait. How could that possibly *not* happen in a console program using Wait?

I'm not sure if I can really help you because I can't even guess what your
words mean - unlike others, I noticed!

> >
> > The thing with the console you mentioned maybe happens as follows (you
> > didn't really provide details): you call an external program through Shell
> > which is not affected by your program being asleep. If you don't catch the
> > output from the Shell instruction (or redirect it), it will be shown in the
> > IDE console, no matter if your program is Sleeping or whatever.
> ok but i try also calling other things internally inside lopp and do
> not have same behabior as when use gui forms
> >
> 

It would be best if you send some code and try again to explain to me what
you think is inconsistent or confuses you.

Regards,
Tobi