Waiting

[Torbjörn Lager]

If you get the kid of errors that I think you get, you probably need to 
call {Wait X} att appropriate places, which will suspend the thread 
until the variable X is determined.
Regards,
Torbjörn

Alan Oswald wrote:

> Here we go again!  Many thanks to all who answered my request for 
> information about random numbers.  I now have another query.  I have a 
> program that generates a rectangular grid some of which are coloured 
> black and some of which are coloured white.  When the grid is 
> generated, I want to choose one of the black ones and manipulate it in 
> a certain way.  The problem I have is that the program tries to choose 
> the cell before the cells are coloured.  I need to know how to make 
> the program wait until after the grid is drawn and coloured before 
> selecting the cell to manipulate.  I'm sure this is easy but I don't 
> seem to get it to work.  I either get a cell before the colouring is 
> completed or nothing or an error telling me there is a missing } at 
> line2 col 0.
>  
> I know you people will know the answer to this and I'm sure it's 
> somewhere in the documentation but I'm unable to find it.
>  
> Alan
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>_________________________________________________________________________________
>mozart-users mailing list                               mozart-users at ps.uni-sb.de
>http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
>  
>