Delay Loop Crashes Esignal

[perfectinglife]

Hi All,

I am confused. I am trying to create a few seconds delay between process, in my efs, inorder to allow an external program to complete some work that I had eSignal initate. I created the following function. This function never exits and the only way out is to crash out.

What might I have done wrong?

main(){

Alert.email ("external program do something");

delay(5);

....efs  continue processing....


function delay(pDylAmt){
    var rtnTime = getValue("rawtime")+pDylAmt;
    var crtTime = getValue("rawtime");
     
    var cnt = 0;
    var y = 0;

    while (crtTime < rtnTime){
        crtTime =getValue("rawtime") ;
    } 
return;
} 

any suggestion to fix this or a way to create a time delay would be appreciated.

[ckryza]

In your delay loop you are checking the bar time, which will not be updated until the next bar comes in. You would need to use the system time to create a delay function, something like:

//== delay function, pass delay in milliseconds
function Delay( nMSecs ) {
var Now = new Date();
var nTarg = Now.getTime() + nMSecs;

    while ( true ) {
        Now = new Date();
        if ( Now.getTime() >= nTarg ) break;
    }

    
} 

Chris

[perfectinglife]

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Hi guys,


Thanks for the code. It worked pretty well. The only issue I have now is that when the delay loop hits the proessor is spiked to 98% and everything stops updating until the delay loop is completed. Then compounds the problem because the processor is so busy looping that it takes extra time for the external program to complete its work.

Any idea how I might create a delay with out stopping everything.

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello perfectinglife,

Other than a delay loop, there isn't any other options available to delay the processing of EFS code. Feel free to submit a request for this to [email protected].