Pausing a script to allow process to finish

[Ken L Herrold]

RE: Pausing a script to allow process to finish

Whoops - didn't alter it enough

The while file_exists(targdrv+chr(92)+"back.txt")

should be while file_exists(C:|"back.txt")

Never mind the variables from my snip.

Ken

[Ken L Herrold]

RE: Pausing a script to allow process to finish

Tom:

Others helped me with that problem. Here's an altered snippet they helped me build. It creates the file on the disk and the 'While' keeps looking for it until the batch is compete. The last line of the batch is "del c:|work.txt
'Makes a work.txt
file_pointer = file.create("C:|work.txt", FILE_RW_EXCLUSIVE)
file_pointer.flush()
file_pointer.close()
'===============================
'This while loops until the batch has deleted back.txt signaling
'the end of the DOS session
while file_exists(targdrv+chr(92)+"back.txt")
statusbar.robot() 'this is the progress thermometer at the bottom left of the screen
end while
statusbar.clear() 'clears it on completion

Maybe you can use some of this - works quite well for me.

Ken

[Al Buchholz]

RE: Pausing a script to allow process to finish

Tom

I use a trigger file that is generated at the start of the bat file and remains there until the bat file is completed.

Alpha checks for the existence of the file and waits until it is gone to continue.

[Tom Cone Jr]

RE: Pausing a script to allow process to finish

Tom,

Put each inside its own user defined function.

-- tom c

[CALocklin]

RE: Pausing a script to allow process to finish

Or you might want to add a message box that the user only closes when the download has completed. I haven't checked but I think the batch file can continue processing while the message is visible - however, nothing in A5 will continue until the message box closes.

[Stan Mathews]

RE: Pausing a script to allow process to finish

sleep()
Syntax:
sleep( Seconds)
Description:
Pauses the execution of a script for the specified number of Seconds. Seconds
can be a fractional number.
Example:
'Pauses a script for 1/10 of a second
'-----------------------------------------------------
'script commands
sleep(1/10)
'more script commands

[tcampb]

I am trying to launch batfiles from Alpha but am unable to figure out how to get each 'Start Program' Action script to pause after each line in order to allow that process to finish before moving to the next item in the script.

Ex: launch a batfile to ftp down an Access db from the web. I need the script to pause here to allow this to finish before moving on to the next process. Even with broadband, it takes a few seconds.

Tom C