Pause between two commands without using the SLEEP() command

questions
1

Hi All,

I have a service running that monitors other services and restarts them when needed. After starting I check if the start is successful. Works fine.

But today I added a service that apparently takes a bit more time to start so my check if the start was successful comes to early. So I need a kind of delay between those two lines. I don’t want to use the SLEEP() command in the case. As far as I know that would delay the whole application which is not good it will also confuse the timer event which has to fire every three minutes.

Is there some other way I can get a delay between to commands instead of using SLEEP()? I guess a delay of 300ms will be sufficient.

2

AFAIK, it only affects the current thread.

3
4

OK that is good to know, thanks. Unfortunate that doesn’t help in this case because this application has just one thread. The checking and starting is done in a UserEvent on the main procedure.

On the newsgroup I got a pragmatic solution: Why not wait for the next timed event to check if the restart worked? For a non-essential service that might be ok.