1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3d33d0967SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 4*15ea6395Smseidel * 5d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6d33d0967SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7d33d0967SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 8d33d0967SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9d33d0967SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11d33d0967SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12*15ea6395Smseidel * 13d33d0967SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14*15ea6395Smseidel * 15d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16d33d0967SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18d33d0967SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19d33d0967SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20d33d0967SAndrew Rist * under the License. 21*15ea6395Smseidel * 22d33d0967SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 23d33d0967SAndrew Rist 24cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 26cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03130600xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Wait Statement [Runtime]</title> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03130600.xhp</filename> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="wait"> 33cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154136"><bookmark_value>Wait statement</bookmark_value> 34cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143229" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Wait millisec</paragraph> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154924" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>millisec:</emph> Numeric expression that contains the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait before the program is executed.</paragraph> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150541" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Example:</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Sub ExampleWait</paragraph> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154367" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Dim lTick As Long</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">lTick = GetSystemTicks()</paragraph> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">wait 2000</paragraph> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154217" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">lTick = (GetSystemTicks() - lTick)</paragraph> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156214" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">MsgBox "" & lTick & " Ticks" ,0,"The pause lasted"</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148922" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">End Sub</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 55