Just time by itself, with *no* conversion at all :) You don't need a conversion to display the output of TIME() Quantized, means it comes in "little packets", and the packet size is bigger than "1" is what I'm saying.
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Farmer <dfar...@epicor.com> To: 'U2 Users List' <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 9:32 am Subject: Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic I guess I am confused on the definition of "quantized". NAP 250 seems to do what I want. Doing a LOOP 1000 and NAP 1 inside the loop, makes it takes quite a few seconds, where I would assume it would be 1 second (1000 x 1 millisecond - 1 second). However, loop 20 with NAP 250 in the loop takes 5 seconds, which is what I would expect (20 x 250 milliseconds = 5 seconds). Also, the OCONV documentation only shows OCONV(num.expr,"MT[H][S][c]") as a syntax. No option for displaying milliseconds. The only why I know to do that is to use SYSTEM(12). I guess I was just using TIME() not SYSTEM(12) as it was easier to visually scan. Doug Farmer 952-417-5225 -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:16 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic Your napping for a quarter of a second is too long :) I was saying that NAP is quantized. You can't actually NAP for a microsecond. So loop 1000 and NAP 1 By the way you can return the microseconds, why are you doing MTS I never bothered to dig into it, to see on what it's quantized. Without MTS you can see the microseconds. -----Original Message----- From: Doug Farmer <dfar...@epicor.com> To: 'U2 Users List' <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 7:22 am Subject: Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic Wow, thanks of all of the responses. Unfortunately, none of them will seem to work on UniData. I will be using NAP on UniVerse. PAUSE and WAKE, I had not heard of. This is only on UniData so not a UniVerse option. It would seem to be a good way to go, except for if the phantom process aborts, the WAKE is never executed and the invoking process (UniObjects subroutine) hangs forever. David's openSocket suggestion does not wait at all if the socket can be opened. If it cannot (for example host name is bad), the timeout is sometimes much longer, probably due to DNS lookup of the bad host name. I tried these examples in the code below. The results are show below the code. When I run this, using NAP 250, I get 4 times the same, then another 4 times the same etc. This seems to show NAP 250 does sleep for a quarter of a second. Doing NAP 1 for 2000 iterations took 31 seconds. Probably due to overhead of setting up NAP 2000 times. The openSocket came right back all the time. Any other ideas, I am open to testing. Again, thanks for all of the responses! Doug Farmer 952-417-5225 Program Listing 0001 PRINT 'Nap 250' 0002 FOR IDX = 1 TO 20 0003 PRINT IDX "R#2":' ':OCONV(TIME(),'MTS') 0004 NAP 250 0005 NEXT IDX 0006 PRINT 'Start of 2000' 0007 PRINT OCONV(TIME(),'MTS') 0008 FOR IDX = 1 TO 2000 0009 NAP 1 0010 NEXT IDX 0011 PRINT OCONV(TIME(),'MTS') 0012 PRINT 'DONE WITH 2000' 0013 PRINT 'Open Socket' 0014 FOR IDX = 1 TO 20 0015 SleepTime = 250 0016 ERR = openSocket('loopback',25,1,SleepTime,HBUFF) 0017 PRINT IDX "R#2":' ':OCONV(TIME(),'MTS') 0018 NEXT IDX Output from Program Nap 250 1 09:11:29 2 09:11:29 3 09:11:29 4 09:11:30 5 09:11:30 6 09:11:30 7 09:11:30 8 09:11:31 9 09:11:31 10 09:11:31 11 09:11:31 12 09:11:32 13 09:11:32 14 09:11:32 15 09:11:32 16 09:11:33 17 09:11:33 18 09:11:33 19 09:11:33 20 09:11:34 Start of 2000 09:11:34 09:12:05 DONE WITH 2000 Open Socket 1 09:12:05 2 09:12:05 3 09:12:05 4 09:12:05 5 09:12:05 6 09:12:05 7 09:12:05 8 09:12:05 9 09:12:05 10 09:12:05 11 09:12:05 12 09:12:05 13 09:12:05 14 09:12:05 15 09:12:05 16 09:12:05 17 09:12:05 18 09:12:05 19 09:12:05 20 09:12:05 This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Click https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/6lVGIXxG7qjGX2PQPOmvUlpAWghQWIvzb3YGjzkT!7MOUCUpiqnJJoGBzmYgl5U4YPnWx2HtmVnUfE+mA+MlhQ== to report this email as spam. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
