Sleeping withut Pausing

[pugboy]

I need to wait X milliseconds before preforming the next action, but the sleep command will interfere with my tray menu... None of the buttons do anything, and I am guessing because the script is "Paused" with the sleep function.

Is there a function for waiting X milliseconds, without pausing the script (so my tray menu items can do something)?

[Andreik]

I need to wait X milliseconds before preforming the next action, but the sleep command will interfere with my tray menu... None of the buttons do anything, and I am guessing because the script is "Paused" with the sleep function.

Is there a function for waiting X milliseconds, without pausing the script (so my tray menu items can do something)?

Try with TimerInit() and TimerDiff().

Edited August 25, 2008 by Andreik

[pugboy]

Doh! I forgot about the timer functions... Thanks!

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

I don't think timerinit and timerdiff can do the trick ..

timerinit is used to mark a time which can be used for counting

timerdiff is the difference between timerinit and calling timerdiff

[pugboy]

No, it worked.

Func wait($milliseconds)
    $begin = TimerInit()
    While 1
        checkTray()
        if(timerDiff($begin) >= $milliseconds) Then
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    WEnd
EndFunc

The checkTray() is the routine checking if any buttons were pressed in the tray menu.

[Achilles]

Using _Timer_SetUp (I think that's it's name) might work better because than you wouldn't need to check in you main loop.

[AdmiralAlkex]

Using _Timer_SetUp (I think that's it's name) might work better because than you wouldn't need to check in you main loop.

That should be _Timer_SetTimer()