The Wait command

[Pete]

Thanks - sounds like this is trivial.  Wouldn't it be nice though if the
wait command could do "wait until <condition> or <time>"
Pete
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM, John Craig <john at splash21.com> wrote:

> Try something like;
>
> Put the millisecs + 5000 into tTime
> Repeat until the millisecs > tTime or the uFlag of this card = true
> Wait for 100 millisecs with messages
> End repeat
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 24 Jun 2011, at 20:58, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
>
> > Trying to figure out how to suspend processing until either a condition
> is
> > true OR a specific amount of time has elapsed.  Looks like the wait
> command
> > allows one or the other but not both.  Any ideas how to do this?
> > Pete
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