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Sleeping in ASP

Is there a way to pause or sleep during an ASP script. Im writing a script in that I want the user to think that the computer is thinking, so I need some kind of sleep() function that will pause the script for about 10 seconds or so.

Thanks,
-Dan

eladr

i think you can build a function
in javascript that do nothing and to set up setTimeout for this function.

elad

bagi112599

say

<% response.buffer=true%>
before <html> tag
and
when you need a sleep
call...
<%

myMinutes =2
Response.Flush
goSleep (myMinutes) %>

<%
function goSleep(myMinutes)
dim koef, timekiller
koef=60*100000
for i=0 to myMinutes*koef
timekiller=timekiller+1
timekiller=timekiller-1
next

end function
%>
<br>
finished sleeping.

where koef is some value you have to adjust depending on your
server CPU speed.
But, depending on now much your server is busy, you will get not exact amount time of sleep.
hope it helps

bagi

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robbert

And, another one:

<%
Sub Sleep(intMilliseconds)
dteEnd = DateAdd("s", intMilliSeconds/1000, Now)
Do While dteEnd > Now
'Sleep
Loop
End Sub

Call Sleep(5000)
Response.Write "Something"
%>

dmaroff

ASKER

Good thinking it works great. The only thing is that if I have a form that is posting to this page, it doesn't show this page until the page completely ends. Any way around this?

Thanks,
-Dan

ruperts

<% response.buffer=true%>
Pre wait code...

<% Response.Flush %>

waiting loop goes here!

<% Response.Flush %>

robbert

ruperts' code is an endless loop...
I've been too late.

ruperts

Q: why is it endless??

A: It's not.

Except:
It is only endless if time stands still! But then if time stood still you wouldn't know that you where actually waiting for it to finish as time would not be passing!

(The above doesn't apply if time goes backwards - that's a whole new theory!)