[jawsscripts] Re: Pause versus Delay
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:40:43 -0900
That's what the docs claim.
On 1/2/10, Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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