Serial communication

[Camm29]

David ,
That's just what i needed , i just had mental blockage you made it look so
easy.

Kind Regards
Camm
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Vaughan" <dvk at dvkconsult.com.au>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: Serial communication


>
> On 13/01/2006, at 9:37, Camm29" <Camm29 at tesco.net> wrote:
> >
> > David thanks , that's seems to do the trick.
> > Any ideas how to break out of repeat loops in say 10 seconds as a
> > timeout ?
>
> Glad it worked for you.
>
> I take it you want a loop to execute but stop after an amount of time
> apart from any other condition.
> Leaving aside mechanisms which will simply kill the handler,  you
> will probably need to check the time before the loop, add ten seconds
> to it and then inside the loop check the current time to see if you
> have reached that the nominated expiry time yet.
> e.g.
> put the seconds + 10 into expiry
> put false into timedOut
> repeat <on some other condition>
>    <do something useful>
>    if the seconds > expiry then
> put true into timedOut
> exit repeat
>    end if
> end repeat
> -- Now checking timedOut will tell you under what condition you did
> exited, normally or by time.
>
> Does anyone have a more elegant solution for this?
>
> regards
> David
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