wait

How to wait for exit of non-children processes

For child processes, the wait() and waitpid() functions can be used to suspends execution of the current process until a child has exited. But this function can not be used for non-child processes. Is there another function, which can wait for exit of any process ? ...

Directed notifyAll()

Hi Guys, A question if I may. Lets suppose that my main thread creates 3 threads. These 3 threads call wait() on a certain object. Then the main thread calls notifyAll() for the same object. How can I ensure than thread2, and only thread2, proceeds while thread1 and thread3 simply ignore the notification and go back to waiting state? ...

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.frames[1].location.href = 'http://some_location.com/page.html'; and then performs actions on that page, for example searching text within the page. I need the script to wait until page.html has loaded in the second frame before doing...

JScript Wait function

I have a function written in JScript (Not javascript) I need to suspend until a certain global variable becomes true. The global variable is changed to true when another function is called after an ajax response: function(req, event, data) { globalVariable = true; } When I try to loop until the variable is true: while (globalVaria...

DeleteFile of an EXE immediately after Process.WaitForExit fails

I do the following: Copy an executable to C:\temp\x.exe Start the executable with System.Diagnostics.Process.Start and then wait for the process to exit, synchronously, by calling WaitForExit on the Process object returned by Start. Delete the executable C:\temp\x.exe On some machines, this works great, but on others, the call to Del...

jQuery build a queue with custom functions (not talking about fx queues)

This is my code... var _before = function () { for (var i = 0; i <= 10000; i++) { console.log(i); } }; var _appear = function () { console.log('i am in the middle of it'); }; var _after = function () { console.log('all done!'); }; jQuery.fn.doSomething = function() { this.click(function() { _before(); ...

Pause execution of a method without locking GUI. C#

I'm working on a card game in C# for a project on my Intro to OOP paper and have got the game working now but am adding "flair" to the GUI. Currently cards are dealt and appear on the UI instantaneously. I want to have to program pause for a moment after dealing a card before it deals the next. When a game is started the following code...

Windows Mobile/C: Wait until variable changes

I'm currently writing a wrapper library for windows mobile in C/C++. I have to implement and export the following functions: void start_scanning(); int wait_for_scanning_result(); void stop_scanning(); start_scanning() is called to start the scanning process. wait_for_scanning_result() will wait until a result is available and return ...

execv, wait, Unix programming, How to wait for a child

Hi I'm working on a unix shell and I'm running into two problems. I was wondering if any of you could help me out. My first problem is that the shell is not waiting for the child process to terminate. I can actually go type more commands while the child process is running. My second problems is in the following two lines. I'm not getting...

How do I move image in the front of Download Now in javascript code?

How do I move this image http://svastara.info/.s/img/icon/download1.png in the front of Download now? Should look something like this: image Download Now var CountdownTimer = function( id, count, imgurl ) { this.construct(id, count, imgurl); } CountdownTimer.prototype = { construct: function(id,count,imgurl) { th...

tcp connection in TIME_WAIT won't allow reconnect, java

hi all, After making a tcp connection to a server, I close my linux application and Socket.close() is called. Checking netstat -pant, I see the connection is in TIME_WAIT status. This prevents me from making an immediate connection back to the server since I'm using the same port to connect from. Instead, I have to wait for the conne...

IllegalMonitorStateException on wait() call

I am using multi-threading in java for my program. I have run thread successfully but when I am using Thread.wait(), it is throwing java.lang.IllegalMonitorStateException. How can I make a thread wait until it will be notified? ...

Better strategy for waiting for a modal window to finish?

I've got a custom ModalDialog class, which I've got working well in most situations. It returns its results via a delegate method, which then continues the app appropriately based on the user's button selection. However, there are some places in my app where the dialog really needs to pop up in the middle of a method (for example, my ga...

Show animation till an operation completes wpf

I want to show an animation wile an operation takes place... and when that operation takes the data and load my datagird i want to stop that animation like in ASP.NET using Ajax or Json but I don't know how to perform same operation here... Kindly help me! media element don't help. ...

WAIT in Transaction - Firebird

Hi all, Can we set the index active when another transaction is in progress. Will firebird wait till the other transaction completes its operation and the index will become inactive/active (this is for reindexing) after that ? Thank you. Regards, Sabu ...

How to wait for process child?

I do the usual fork + exec combination: int sockets [2]; socketpair (AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sockets); int pid = fork (); if (pid == 0) { // child dup2 (sockets[0], STDIN_FILENO); dup2 (sockets[0], STDOUT_FILENO); execvp (argv[0], argv); _exit (123); } // parent close (sockets[0]); // TODO wait and see if child crashes I...

Waiting for mouse input in Java Swing

I'm working on a Java Swing application. I have a button whose action runs a query on a database and then plots the results. These commands are performed from the listener on the Run button. As I understand it, this means that the thread running at this point is from the EventQueue. Given certain input, I need to halt processing an...

Waiting for a text change in WatiN

I am trying to test a web page that has ajax calls to update a price. An ajax call is fired on page load to update an initially empty div. This is the extension method I'm using to wait for a change in the inner text of the div. public static void WaitForTextChange(this IE ie, string id) { string old = ie.Element(id).Text; ie.E...

(iPhone) how to wait a method to finished up, one of its arguments is calling selector..

I'm stuck with this problem, looks like multithreading one but I'm quite new to this kind of topics. I need some help form experts!!! [Problem Conditions] (1) Need to call a method which has 3 arguments, one argument is "@selector( myMethod: )" (2) Need to call (1) for multiple times (3) Need to make sure each of (1)'s selector is don...

Why do all Java Objects have wait() and notify() and does this cause a performance hit?

Every Java Object has the methods wait() and notify() (and additional variants). I have never used these and I suspect many others haven't. Why are these so fundamental that every object has to have them and is there a performance hit in having them (presumably some state is stored in them)? EDIT to emphasize the question. If I have a ...