oskrypuch Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 From the Program Summary page, programs can be listed as Enabled (on/off), Activity (idle/running 'xxx') and Status (true/false) In an IF statement you can test for the Status like so: If Program 'DoSomething' is True ... I don't see any way to directly test for the Activity of a program, IOW whether it is currently idle or running Then or Else, etc. You could handle it with a separate Program "variable", but that is a bit clumsy. A feature request. * Orest Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Hello Orest, In cases of programs that do not have Wait/Repeat statements, the additional overhead for checking activity (the duration of which might be between milliseconds to few seconds in case of communications errors) is a bit too much. Do you have any specific use cases in mind for which this is needed? With kind regards, Michel Link to comment
oskrypuch Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 It is exactly that application, to check a program that is in a WAIT loop. Something like this: Program CheckStatus if Program 'DoStuff_wait_DoMore Stuff' is not active Then ... Program DoStuff_wait_DoMore Stuff if Then wait xx MoreStuff I can also accomplish this with Program pseudo-variables, basically setting a semaphore to allow for a testable condition, when the second program is running its Then statement. * Orest Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Hi Orest, thank you! I'll see what we can do ... With kind regards, Michel Link to comment
oskrypuch Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 Many thanks. * Orest Link to comment
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