I didn't get that from the dictionary entry for wait, although I guess everything after "until" is just a compound condition. Never thought of that, thanks for the idea.
Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:53 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 6/24/11 2:58 PM, Pete wrote: > >> Trying to figure out how to suspend processing until either a condition is >> true OR a specific amount of time has elapsed. Looks like the wait >> command >> allows one or the other but not both. Any ideas how to do this? >> > > You can use both in a wait command, for example: > > put "starting" > put the seconds into tStart > wait until the shiftkey is down or the seconds - tStart > 5 > put "stopping" > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
