Using an If Then sleep statement

[aa2zz6]

Can someone explain how sleep works without defining an actual delay time. I figured it wouldn't work without a delay but it does after an If Then statement. Thanks 

If ProcessExists("Setup.exe") Then Sleep

 

Edited June 9, 2018 by aa2zz6

[TheXman]

12 minutes ago, aa2zz6 said:

Can someone explain how sleep works without defining an actual delay time

Actually, it doesn't.  If the process doesn't exist, it won't try to execute the statement.  If the process does exist, you will get a runtime error.

What lead you to believe that it did work?  Did you not try it for yourself?

Edited June 9, 2018 by TheXman

[AutoBert]

Sleep isn't working when the process not exists. This script:

If ProcessExists("Setup.exe") Then Sleep
If Not ProcessExists("Setup.exe") Then Sleep

must crash.

[JLogan3o13]

@aa2zz6 if you were using the full SciTE, that would throw a syntax error before it even got started:

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"C:\Users\JLogan\Desktop\Test2.au3" (1) : ==> Error parsing function call.:

if ProcessExists("Notepad.exe") Then Sleep
if ProcessExists("Notepad.exe") Then ^ ERROR
 

 

[aa2zz6]

hmm, okay, I will need to look at this.