RE: question about TIMER and about Changing Mouse shape

["Alain Tougas" <alain@xxxxxxx>]

Yes indeed, and the following procedure can be used to provide a better
timing: this one will launch some.slow.procedure, launch something.else, and
then cancel something.else when some.slow.procedure has terminated.

to test
launch [some.slow.procedure]
launch [something.else]
waintuntil [done? [some.slow.procedure]]
cancel [somethign.else]
end

Alain

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[mailto:mwforum-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel
Ajoy
Sent: January 4, 2007 12:50 PM
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Subject: Re: question about TIMER and about Changing Mouse
shape


On 4 Jan 2007 at 2:56, zehava wizman wrote:

> 1.I know to use timer something like this procedure:
>
> to check resett t1, towards "t3 t1, forever [ setsh 7 fd slider1
> wait 1 setsh 8 fd slider1 wait 1 if touching? "t1 "t3 [ announce
> se timer / 10 "????? stopall ] ] end
>
> But If I reset the timer, and now want something to happen after 1
> minute for example, how can I do it?

Keep in mind that the following will not take 5 minutes,
"some.slow.procedure" might take a long time to complete:

repeat 5 [
some.slow.procedure
wait 3600
]

however

repeat 5 [
launch [some.slow.procedure]
wait 3600
]

does not work either in all cases because
"some.slow.procedure" might take more than 1 minute
to complete, if that's the case then you'll have
multiple "some.slow.procedure"s running in parallel

Daniel
OpenWorld Learning