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 >>__________? >>Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com >> >>View the list's information and change your settings at >>//www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >> > > -- > Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer > SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand > mailto:doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ssbbartgroup.com > "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, > it was done." --Helen Keller > __________ > Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > -- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride www.abletec.serverheaven.net Please join me Saturday, 11/7, on my walk against breast cancer by making a donation at: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/larkspur> __________ Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts