The Wait command

[Pete]

I didn't get that from the dictionary entry for wait, although I guess
everything after "until" is just a compound condition.  Never thought of
that, thanks for the idea.

Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:53 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 6/24/11 2:58 PM, Pete 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?
>>
>
> You can use both in a wait command, for example:
>
>  put "starting"
>  put the seconds into tStart
>  wait until the shiftkey is down or the seconds - tStart > 5
>  put "stopping"
>
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