>I know I've seen this before, but I can't remember the answer.
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>How does one put a VFP application to sleep for some number of seconds? In 2.6 I would write a loop which did nothing
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>PROCEDURE sleep
>PARAMETERS nWait
>PRIVATE ALL
>nSeconds = SECONDS()
>nEnd = nSeconds + nWait
>DO WHILE SECONDS() < nEnd
>  ** Do Nothing
>ENDDO
>

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>I'm pretty sure I've seen a reference to an API call which does the same thing. Could someone please post an example for me???
>

If you want to be able to wake up on demand:

= INKEY([nSeconds])