Top "Wait" questions

In programming, 'wait' refers to the act of pausing the execution of a program until a specific condition is met or a given amount of time has passed.

Sleep routine for HTA scripts

In several of my .HTA scripts that I created, I had the need for the VBScript WScript.Sleep command which …

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How to use wait()/notify() in Java

I know that there are a few threads open regarding this topic, but I'm just looking for a VERY ELEMENTARY …

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Difference between Synchronized block with wait/notify and without them?

If I just use synchronized, not the wait/notify methods, will it still be thread-safe? What's the difference?

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Using Task.wait() application hangs and never returns

I am new to C# and using Task. I was trying to run this application but my application hangs every …

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Waiting in GameMaker: Studio

I composed a script in GML that is supposed to wait a few seconds before executing a script, but I …

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How to get javascript in one frame to wait until a page has loaded in a second frame

I have two frames in a frameset - frame[0] contains a script that loads a page into frame[1] using top.…

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puppet how to make puppet to wait for a few seconds

I would like to run a webservice and wait for a few seconds after to get the result. What is …

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using Object as a mutex in java

Hello there good poeple, I need some help. I'm writing a music player which streams music from the web. If …

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Best way to wait in Java

I have an app that needs to wait for some unknown amount of time. It must wait until several data …

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Linux, waitpid, WNOHANG and zombies

I need to be able to: fork a process and make it execvp (I did that) check if the child …

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