[jawsscripts] Re: Pause versus Delay
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Doug Lee <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:30:14 -0700
U know, I could be wrong too, but I thought I read in the fs developer
docs that pause basically was synonomous w/a delay(1)
On 1/2/10, Doug Lee <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I never knew exactly what governs the length of a Pause() call, but I
> think of it as a Yield function and assume it lets through whatever is
> explicitly waiting, or more accurately, gives all other processes a
> chance to do what they think is important. But this is a guess, and
> since the length of a Pause() does not seem to be variable for the
> most part, I think I may be wrong.
>
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:06:34AM -0500, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> That's helpful -- thanks. Could explain why the Delay calls were not
> suppressing speech for me. Regarding Pause, do you think it waits for,
> say, a sertain number of window messages to be processed by the active
> window?
>
> Jamal
>
>
> On 1/1/2010 5:48 PM, Doug Lee wrote:
>>Delay's time can be aborted by a keystroke according to tests I ran
>>years ago. In particular, I seem to recall that typing a key makes
>>the current Delay() call return immediately and all future Delay()
>>calls do no delaying at all, until the keystroke itself is handled.
>>Pause() always seems to pause regardless of whatever else may be going
>>on. I have not messed much if at all with the second parameter of
>>Delay().
>>
>>On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:34:01PM -0500, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
>>I know this has come up before, but I still don't feel I understand when
>>to use which of these functions, and when to use the second parameter of
>>Delay. I have noticed that sometimes Pause seems more effective then
>>Delay at suppressing undesired speech. For example, If I temporarily
>>disable speech with SpeechOff, type some keystrokes, Delay, then restore
>>speech, sometimes I still get undesired speech seemingly no matter how
>>long the Delay is, and even if I use True as a second parameter. In
>>this situation, Pause does seem to suppress the undesired speech.
>>
>>Naturally, I want to minimize time delays with speech off, so I'd like
>>to call whichever function is optimal. Can folks share the best of
>>their understanding/experiences on Pause versus Delay?
>>
>>Jamal
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