PlayerPlayer.yieldTime
Syntax
Player.yieldTime(delayValue)
Parameters
delay is an integer.
Action
Give processor time to other applications.
Returns
True.
Examples
with Player « ", attributes" was required in 1.0x but is optional in 1.1
while getWindowAttribute(1, name) equals "Progress"
yieldTime(60)
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 setForcedYield(...); this gives time from Frontier to other apps, setForcedYield(...) forces another app to yield the processor to Frontier and Player.
- This verb has a similar effect as repeated calls to Frontier's sys.systemTask() verb.
See Also
Player.setForcedYield
Player.getItemInfo
Player.getMenuInfo
Player.getWindowInfo
Player.getItemAttribute
Player.getMenuAttribute
Player.getWindowAttribute
Player.buttonExists
Player.checkboxExists
Player.itemExists
Player.menuExists
Player.popupExists
Player.radioExists
Player.windowExists
Keywords
delay[1] version1.03
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