<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- * This file is part of the LibreOffice project. * * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. * * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice: * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed * with this work for additional information regarding copyright * ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache * License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file * except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . --> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared03130600xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Wait Statement [Runtime]</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03130600.xhp</filename> </topic> <history> <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> </history> </meta> <body> <section id="wait"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154136"><bookmark_value>Wait statement</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <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> <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> </section> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143229" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> <bascode> <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="4">Wait millisec</paragraph> </bascode> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154924" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> <emph>millisec:</emph> Numeric expression that contains the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait before the program is executed.</paragraph> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150541" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Example:</paragraph> <bascode> <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" localize="false">Sub ExampleWait</paragraph> <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3154367" xml-lang="en-US" localize="false">Dim lTick As Long</paragraph> <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" localize="false"> lTick = GetSystemTicks()</paragraph> <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US" localize="false"> Wait 2000</paragraph> <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3154217" xml-lang="en-US" localize="false"> lTick = (GetSystemTicks() - lTick)</paragraph> <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3156214" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="13"> MsgBox "" & lTick & " Ticks" ,0,"The pause lasted"</paragraph> <paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3148922" xml-lang="en-US" localize="false">End Sub</paragraph> </bascode> </body> </helpdocument>