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| <topic id="textsbasicshared03130600xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> |
| <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Wait Statement [Runtime]</title> |
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| <section id="wait"> |
| <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154136"> |
| <bookmark_value>Wait statement</bookmark_value> |
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| <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154136" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><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">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">Syntax:</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Wait millisec</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154924" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>millisec:</emph> Numeric expression that contains the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait before the program is executed.</paragraph> |
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| <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150541" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleWait</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154367" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim lTick As Long</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">lTick = GetSystemTicks()</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">wait 2000</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154217" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">lTick = (GetSystemTicks() - lTick)</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156214" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">MsgBox "" & lTick & " Ticks" ,0,"The pause lasted"</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148922" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">End Sub</paragraph> |
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