Hilmar,
Sleep pauses the current program for the specified timeout without waiting for any input. I'm not sure how significant this is, but in a tight loop this may well make a difference. Sleep is particularly useful in COM-server DLLs where UI functions such as WAIT and INKEY() are not available.
See also MSKB#
Q260337HTH
>>Lawrence,
>>In addition to Hilmar's reply, if you need a timeout in VFP, it's more efficient to use the API call Sleep():
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>Daniel,
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>Since this is relatively new for me, I wish to ask in what way would Sleep() be more efficient?
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>Hilmar.
Daniel
