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Sleeping in SKILL

gsimard

Hi,

 

 I need a function that would do a sleep for X milliseconds or seconds. I need to wait for an asynchronous task to complete so I'm polling a flag regularly, but I don't want to take the whole CPU in a while loop. Any idea ?

 

 Thank you,

Guillaume

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  • Guillaume,

    A couple of thoughts. Are you using sleep() or ipcSleep()? If you use ipcSleep, then I think that doesn't block the data handler for ipcBeginProcess() - if my memory is correct (I can't test this right now). sleep however blocks everything... So that might give you the right combination of blocking yet allowing messages from the background process through.

    As a side note, you might be interested in solution 11381132 (on sourcelink) which is a little package I wrote (based around hiRegTimer) which allows you to schedule repeating SKILL function calls, and provides you with a handle so you can manage these "processes" and kill them off when you want.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Guillaume,

    A couple of thoughts. Are you using sleep() or ipcSleep()? If you use ipcSleep, then I think that doesn't block the data handler for ipcBeginProcess() - if my memory is correct (I can't test this right now). sleep however blocks everything... So that might give you the right combination of blocking yet allowing messages from the background process through.

    As a side note, you might be interested in solution 11381132 (on sourcelink) which is a little package I wrote (based around hiRegTimer) which allows you to schedule repeating SKILL function calls, and provides you with a handle so you can manage these "processes" and kill them off when you want.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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