How to add pause between two script lines

[paul0]

I want to add a pause between two script lines, ie., the second line will not start until the pause is time out.

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"command"
   run "a program";
   (pause 3);
   run "another program";

Please advise how to add a pause, e.g.3 seconds, explicitly.

[eil]

wait 3000;

[paul0]

Thanks a lot. It works perfectly.

[serendipity]

Please advise how to add a pause, e.g.3 seconds, explicitly.

I know you said you wanted to wait 3 second explicitly.
But if 3 second thing is to prevent the second program from starting before first one ends then more advisable would be to use wait parameter (1) which the run command already has. Second run will start ONLY after first run is completed. So modifying your script:

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"command"
   run "a program", ,1;
   run "another program", ,1;
   run "yet another program", ,1;

[Twisten]

Or wait until Don will fix/enhance the run command (if thats the reason you'd prefer a timer).
Its been a topic of discussion before and one of the requests was that it won't block (or only optionally block) the XYplorer GUI just because its waiting for a shell command to finish.
It should be the script writer responsibility to make sure his script function won't be impaired by the user "wandering" into other places while the script is running.

[highend]

Or wait until Don will fix/enhance the run command

Do you have any information that this will (ever) happen?

The discussion about that is rather old (in terms of releasing new betas every few days).

I'm just rewriting my little CheckProcess autoit script to work around the limitations of the
inbuild run command

[Marco]

If I remember correctly, wait is an unofficial command, so be careful!
(Don, read behind the lines... ...sendkey also... )

[Filehero]

If I remember correctly, wait is an unofficial command, so be careful!

Yep, it's not listed in the Scripting Commands Reference which I consider a complete list of all official (supported) commands.


Cheers,
Filehero

[paul0]

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"command"
   run "a program", ,1;
   run "another program", ,1;
   run "yet another program", ,1;

Thanks, serendipity. This parameter is very useful.

I also agree with Twisten's comment.

Or wait until Don will fix/enhance the run command (if thats the reason you'd prefer a timer).
Its been a topic of discussion before and one of the requests was that it won't block (or only optionally block) the XYplorer GUI just because its waiting for a shell command to finish.

At the same time, we really don't know if the program has finished. For example, I run a DOS batch file A.bat, and A.bat calls B.bat. A.bat might complete before B.bat completes.

[highend]

Atm you need some kind of an external application, that provides feedback, if something has really finished (by watching it's process).

Not hard to do with e.g. autoit or autohotkey. Ofc these scripts should be compiled and they stay in the taskmanager as long as the process is still running. They are providing the necessary feedback to XYplorer's scripts. I posted a simple approach a while back: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7490

It could be done with temp files as well (the clipboard is a bit unpractical if you need to enter .zip / .rar passwords) *g*

[paul0]

Atm you need some kind of an external application, that provides feedback, if something has really finished (by watching it's process).

Not hard to do with e.g. autoit or autohotkey. ...

Thanks, highend. I tried autoit before and it worked quite well.

Thanks all for your helpful comments.

[urka]

Is there a way to make it wait until the previous line is done? Other than just increasing the wait time?
For example:

copyto "<curpath>", "D:\bla\bla";

wait 750;

renameitem ("bla2", "bla", 4);

Sometimes it works, other times it gives an error (the bla folder doesn't exist), because the folder didn't copy yet.

[highend]

Is there a way to make it wait until the previous line is done?

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setting "BackgroundFileOps", 0;