Playeryield time: give processor time to other applications (new in 1.03)
Syntax
yield time delayValue
Parameters
delayValue -- integer for amount of time to yield (approximately 60ths of a second)
Result
true
Examples
repeat while name of (get info window 1) is "Progress"
yield time 60
end repeat
Notes
- This verb is most useful when an application is running a compute-intensive task that must be completed before the script continues. See the new "many ways to wait" example scripts for details.
- If only Player is running, the delay represents "ticks" (60ths of a second). With compute-intensive apps running (the usual case), it might be much longer. Each "tick" that Player yields gives the app a chance to use the processor. Once the app grabs the processor, it will generally use much more than 1/60 of a second.
- In many ways, this verb is the opposite of set forced yield; this gives time from AppleScript to other apps, set forced yield forces another app to yield the processor to AppleScript and Player.
See Also
set forced yield
get info
exists
