Puts the computer into idle state by putting the current thread to sleep.
More efficient than using VFP's keyboard timeout values that are dependent on user input and keypresses to interrupt the timeout process.
o.Sleep(lnMilliSecs)
Parameters
lnMilliSecs
Milliseconds to sleep
Remarks
This method is both a standalone function and wwAPI class method for backwards compatibility.
Example
FOR x = 1 to 1000 DoSomething() Sleep(2) && Cause a context switch and give up time slices ENDFOR loAPI = CREATEOBJECT("wwAPI") FOR x = 1 to 1000 DoSomething() loAPI.Sleep(2) && Cause a context switch and give up time slices ENDFOR
See also:
Class wwAPI© West Wind Technologies, 2004-2017 • Updated: 08/05/07
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