Pause for Zero Seconds...

[ferdly]

Hi All,

So I was poking around in the amazing ScriptMaster file by 360Works when I noticed something interesting.

Now these folks are too smart to do anything by accident, so I believe that this must be a "Tool Tip" that I have never heard of before.

In their "Register all selected functions" script just after they Adjust Window, and just before they Freeze Script they Pause for Zero Seconds.

What does that do?

The closest thing I know of is that when I want multiple "Beeps" (when a user is about to do something dangerous) I need to put 1 second pauses between to make them distinct.

So what do our friends at 360Works gain by Pausing for Zero seconds? (Of course you all at 360Works are free to respond...).

Thanks in Advance,

Brad

[Hal Gumbert]

It looks like that script Resizes the Window to Fit, Pauses, then Freezes.

The Pause would cause the screen to refresh after the pause, so that the Freeze holds the correct view.

[ferdly]

Hi Hal,

Okay that may be it, but if it is then it would seem just to be a coding "habit" of the writer since there is a "Refresh Window" script step just for this.

I am still holding out for two other options:

1. That you are correct that the purpose is to refresh before freeze, but that Pause for Zero Seconds offers some difference to the Refresh Window step that we don't know. Or...

2. That there really is some kind of esoteric benefit to this that we still haven't found out.

I am still hoping for another answer, especially from the 360Works folks themselves.

Thanks!