Re: Time Delay RPG IV

David

I'm in favor of the data queues, as well - because I never trust guessing how long something will take. And I tend not to like polling methods. Of course, waiting on a queue is like polling under the covers!!

Chris did not mention checking for the completion of the other job - witha timeout you'd want to check that, methinks.

Vern

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From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Murphy, Mark wrote:

Alternately you could use data queues to do this, and the RPG will
wait exactly until the asynchronous process is finished.

That seems to be a pretty round about way to get a delay. It can also cause
confusion ... as someone else who's looking at the code might think the data
queue is supposed to actually supply data,

Calling sleep() or DLYJOB makes a lot more sense to me.

david

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