Pause in script?

[onefish]

Can anybody advise me of the best way to pause a script? I can't seem to fine anything in the help file or reference lists. I have used a counter and a loop that exits the loop after XX times. The more times that longer the pause. This doesn't seem right though. I thought about using the system clock but then the script will be dependant upon that functioning properly. What is the best way?

[BigDod]

Sleep(5000) ; Sleeps for 5 seconds

[LxP]

And there's also the wait-for-user pause:

msgBox(0x40048, "Paused", "Press OK to continue.")

[Knight]

or if you don't want it paused completely, You can do this.

$Pause = TimerInit()

Do
   Sleep(50)
Until TimerDiff($Pause) = 5000

That Pauses for 5 seconds as well.

[LxP]

Just to elaborate on Knight's example: right now it's only equivalent to Sleep(5000) but its beauty lies in its ability to do things during that five seconds:

local $pause = timerInit()

do

    sleep(50)
    ; do some number crunching
    ; or perhaps search for some files

until (timerDiff($pause) = 5000)

[pricyber]

how to make it so its pause when it hit a key for example F12 and resume when it hit the same key or another key?

[Knight]

Global $Paused
HotKeySet("{PAUSE}", "TogglePause")

Func TogglePause()
    $Paused = NOT $Paused
    While $Paused
        sleep(100)
        ToolTip('Script is "Paused"',0,0)
    WEnd
    ToolTip("")
EndFunc