wait/pause a script?

[hank tank]

Hi all,

does anybody knows a way to pause or wait the execution of a script-step for a short time (say 30 seconds)? I'm using a FM plugin that I call through external functions, but for one of those functions I do not get feedback if it is finished or not, neither can I test it (the plugin is controlling hardware), but I cannot proceed before it is finished. I thought putting a dialog in between to pause the script until the user sees the device is ready, but this interrupts the execution of the external functions.

tnx

hank

[LaRetta]

Hi Hank,

Pause/Resume Script [ "0:00:30" ]

LaRetta

[EddyB]

Pause/Resume Script["0:00:30"] should do it

Ed

[kenneth2k1]

Pause/Resume Script should do it.

All together now!

[-Queue-]

I didn't even bother with this one. It felt like an innate intelligence insulter.

[hank tank]

jee guys, tanx, I saw that option a few hundred times, but somehow my brain didn't make the connection...rather lame, huh?

the only thing is, it's not working... the external function probably requires that there is no other script running when it is executed... so I guess I should resolve it manually....

[kenneth2k1]

Would it be possible to put the external step at the end of the script?

[SteveB]

What plugin and function are you dealing with? Typically, the plugin waits for its processes to finish before returning control to FM. I have had an issue with the Troi File Plugin, but this was really less an issue with the plugin itself, and more with a secondary process that the plugin started and had no control over.

Steve

[hank tank]

It's the Autolog plugin from Pipeline Digital (the older version for OS9). It's a plugin that gives you video logging/framegrabbing and device control from within FMP. The problem arises when I automatically want to Cue to the In point before starting a video-capture script.

It looks like I have to start a script, do the Cue In command, exit the script, wait a few seconds and than resume the capturing script...

Buy, hey, I can also instruct the users to manually Cue In before starting the capture...