Getting a VBScript to "Sleep"

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Anyone know how to get an EA VBScript to sleep?  Typically within a loop.

I'm zipping up an EAP file and I need to wait until the zipping is completed.  I'm NOT a VBScript guru, and research hasn't helped.

TIA,
Paolo

[Geert Bellekens]

Paolo,

Have you tried the suggestions in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1729075/how-to-set-delay-in-vbscript

Geert

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Paolo,

Have you tried the suggestions in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1729075/how-to-set-delay-in-vbscript

Geert

Yes Geert,

That was part of my research.  The WScript object doesn't seem to exist in EA's VBScript as far as I can see - the statement returns an error.  Later in that article it says that WScript is only for Windows Scripting Host.  I was hoping a Sparxian would tell us what the EA equivalent was.

As I said, I'm just a VBScript newbie, although I've been using VBA for decades...

Paolo

[edit]BTW: I'm interested in non-CPU hogging mechanisms as I need the Zip to complete - not compete with the wait loop. [/edit]

[Geert Bellekens]

Try this:

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sub main
      dim ws
      Set ws = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
      ws.popup "Sleeping for 10 seconds, do not click anything!", 10,"Sleeping", 48
end sub

mainThere must be other ways, but this seems pretty user friendly.
If you want to you catch the return of popup to check if the user has clicked OK or not.

Geert

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Try this:

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sub main
      dim ws
      Set ws = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
      ws.popup "Sleeping for 10 seconds, do not click anything!", 10,"Sleeping", 48
end sub

mainThere must be other ways, but this seems pretty user friendly.
If you want to you catch the return of popup to check if the user has clicked OK or not.

Geert

Thanks Geert,

I'll give it a go!  It may "kill two birds with one stone"!

Paolo