Wait

Overview

• The Wait command is used to wait for some condition before continuing. The condition can be an amount of time, an expression, or both, depending on the command & action used.
• Waits should always be used after commands which act on other windows, as after PowerPro sends the window a message asking it to do something, the window itself must have time to respond.

Actions

Activity

Waits for mouse or keyboard activity.

For

Wait for specified length of time, or for an expression to evaluate to true.

ForInterval

Waits for specified amount of time.

Message

Displays a message box with specified msg and, optionally, a countdown timer starting at n seconds, & waits for user to press a button to determine whether to continue.

Quit

Quit all waits.

Ready

Wait for specified program(s) to be ready to accept input.

Until

Wait until specified length of time, or until an expression evaluates to true.

See Also

• PowerPro offers a few other types of waits:
  • the Event Plugin
    • PPSR > Plugins > The Plugins > Event
  • File.RunCallBack() in the File plugin
    • PPSR > Plugins > The Plugins > File > Services > RunCallBack
  • File.RunWait() in the File plugin
    • PPSR > Plugins > The Plugins > File > Services > RunWait