You never want to call thread.sleep() on the UI thread as it sounds like you have figured out. This freezes the UI and is always a bad thing to do. You can use a separate Thread and postDelayed This SO answer shows how to do that as well as several other options Handler TimerTask You … Read more
Normally, for internal commands PowerShell does wait before starting the next command. One exception to this rule is external Windows subsystem based EXE. The first trick is to pipeline to Out-Null like so: PowerShell will wait until the Notepad.exe process has been exited before continuing. That is nifty but kind of subtle to pick up … Read more
In Python 3 use input(): In Python 2 use raw_input(): This only waits for the user to press enter though. One might want to use msvcrt ((Windows/DOS only) The msvcrt module gives you access to a number of functions in the Microsoft Visual C/C++ Runtime Library (MSVCRT)): This should wait for a key press. Additional … Read more
Thread has a method that does that for you join which will block until the thread has finished executing.
I have a code and I want it to wait somewhere in the middle before going forward. After the WebBrowser1.Document.Window.DomWindow.execscript(“checkPasswordConfirm();”,”JavaScript”) I want it to wait .5 seconds and then do the rest of the code.
timeout 5 to delay timeout 5 >nul to delay without asking you to press any key to cancel
I’m trying to make a simple script for a game, by changing the time of day, but I want to do it in a fast motion. So this is what I’m talking about: and so on. How would I go about doing this?
If you call wait(NULL) (wait(2)), you only wait for any child to terminate. With wait(&status) you wait for a child to terminate but you want to know some information about it’s termination. You can know if the child terminate normally with WIFEXITED(status) for example. status contains information about processes that you can check with some already defined MACRO.
Is it pausing, but you don’t see your red color appear in the cell? Try this:
wait(NULL) will block parent process until any of its children has finished. If child terminates before parent process reaches wait(NULL) then the child process turns to a zombie process until its parent waits on it and its released from memory. If parent process doesn’t wait for its child, and parent finishes first, then the child process becomes orphan and is … Read more