1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03130600xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Wait Statement [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03130600.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-08-24T14:54:49">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="wait"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154136"><bookmark_value>Wait statement</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154136" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03130600.xhp" name="Wait Statement [Runtime]">Wait Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149236" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Interrupts the program execution for the amount of time that you specify in milliseconds.</paragraph> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143229" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Wait millisec</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154924" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 53<emph>millisec:</emph> Numeric expression that contains the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait before the program is executed.</paragraph> 54<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 55<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 56<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150541" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Example:</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Sub ExampleWait</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154367" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Dim lTick As Long</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">lTick = GetSystemTicks()</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">wait 2000</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154217" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">lTick = (GetSystemTicks() - lTick)</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156214" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">MsgBox "" & lTick & " Ticks" ,0,"The pause lasted"</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148922" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">End Sub</paragraph> 64</body> 65</helpdocument> 66