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HB_IdleState()

Signals an idle state.

Syntax

HB_IdleState() --> NIL

Return

The return value is always NIL.

Description

Function HB_IdleState() is used to explicitely signal an idle state while the program is not wating for user input. The function requests garbage collection and executes a single idle task defined with the codeblock passed to the HB_IdleAdd() function. Each call to HB_IdleState() function evaluates the next idle task in the order of task creation.

Info

See also:	HB_GCAll(), HB_IdleAdd(), HB_IdleDel(), HB_IdleSleepMSec()
Category:	Background processing , xHarbour extensions
Source:	rtl\idle.c
LIB:	xhb.lib
DLL:	xhbdll.dll