[Easy] Autoit Wait Function?

[MattyGibbard]

Hey everyone, I'm new to Autoit so bare with me a second.

I have created a few simple programs but nothing overly amazing. One problem I keep coming across is setting Autoit to wait.

I know there is a sleep function such as:

"Sleep (1000)"

but this pauses the whole script for that period of time so the user cannot exit or press another button.

Is there a way to wait instead of sleep?

Example:

Let's say when I press a button, a picture shows. Easy huh? The picture only stays up for 5 seconds, and then vanishes again. So far so good. The only problem is, if I use 'Sleep' then the whole program will freeze for five seconds.

Can anyone help?

Thank you.

[KaFu]

Maybe something like this?

while winexists()
sleep(20)
wend

; or
while processexists()
sleep(20)
wend

[Bam]

maybe like a counter like

$Count = 0
While $Count < 50
    $Count += 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd
MsgBox(1, "Done", "sleept for 5 seconds")

giving you a count of 50 after 5 seconds maybe

(but might be longer then 5 seconds)

Edited January 20, 2009 by Bam

[SpookMeister]

Another way to do it is to use _Timer_Init() and _Timer_Diff()

[MrCreatoR]

....

I know there is a sleep function such as:

"Sleep (1000)"

but this pauses the whole script for that period of time so the user cannot exit or press another button.

Is there a way to wait instead of sleep?

Example:

Let's say when I press a button, a picture shows. Easy huh? The picture only stays up for 5 seconds, and then vanishes again. So far so good. The only problem is, if I use 'Sleep' then the whole program will freeze for five seconds.

....

What you need to wait for?

P.S

Using timers or loops it's the same as Sleep(), unless you need to do something inside those loops/timer functions.

[FireFox]

@MrCreator

not really...

While 1
Sleep(2000) ;sleeping....
MsgBox(64, 'Timer', '2sec !')
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Cheers, FireFox.

[MrCreatoR]

not really...

Not really what? You just showed what i said.

[FireFox]

@MrCreator

ops missunderstood what you said

Cheers, FireFox.

Edited January 21, 2009 by FireFox

[MattyGibbard]

Thanks everyone for the info. I'm still having trouble getting it into my code.

Here is an example of what I'm doing:

-I have a GUI, a button and an image

-The image is of me

-I want to be able to change that image every 5 seconds to a blink and back again (Really fast)

-In the meantime, I still want my GUI to respond to the button press.

Thank you for any more help.

[BrettF]

$GUI = GUICreate ("Sample GUI", 200, 200)
$pic = GUICtrlCreatePic ("open.jpg", 10, 10, 180, 180)
GUISetState ()

$blink = False
$timer = TimerInit ()
While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg ()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case - 3
            Exit
    EndSwitch
    If TimerDiff($timer) >= 5000 Then;5 Seconds
        $timer = TimerInit()
        $blink = True
    ;Switch image
        GUICtrlSetImage ($pic, "close.jpg")
    ElseIf ($blink = True) And (TimerDiff($timer) >= 100) Then
    ;Switch Image Back
        GUICtrlSetImage ($pic, "open.jpg")
        $blink = False
    EndIf
WEnd

Maybe like that? (Untested)

EDIT:

Changed example.

You need the following images:

I'm fairly happy with how this works too

Open.JPG

Close.JPG

Edited January 22, 2009 by BrettF