i can think of several reason ud want to pause a while loop ... one i can name offhand would be on my nicklst script ive made ..... ive had to actually set a timer now into the script to allow for certain variables to be setup when the loop starts to execute ... in order for it to actually work and compile my nicklist correctly ...... i know it doesnt sound like it would need to but ...... when u start setting icons into a nicklist using mdx ..... u can also set icons on away nicks ... to get the away nicks u have to do a who of tha chan and look for a G in $7 of the returned nicks ..... in a loop .. then set each nick it finds that g in $7 of its line into a variable ..... then u ned to start to compile the nicklist once u get all those nicks....... now to do this u have to also hold off and sort thru the variable u created with the away nicks ...... so u have to get all the nicks compare each one to whatss in that variable then if it matches set its approriate icon now its not so hard to payse it all if when u set ur event trigger up like on join who $chan | timer 1 1 alias of nicklist compiler
now u would have to do that on each and every possible nicklist change have a timer to hold it off while it compiles away nicks then it starts to sort thru it ... now on nick changes u actually have to set a timer on the who $chan and then increase the timer on the nicklist compiler by one ....... what ive noticed is if there was the ability to pause the loop to allow for some of thsese variable to be set then it would make it alot easier ... as i had to figure these lil tricks out without having clue why things werent setting or compiling correctly ...... so to have the ability to pause a loop for say a second would be a completely awesome idea .. it would allow for certain variavbles to be set and u could include other things inside the loop that uve had to otherwise exclude because of these slight limitations ...... but really if u cant pause ur loop there are other ways around what ur tryin to accomplish ... so i guess in the end its all just a thought of ok should this be like this or should it be left to do alternativly ...... say u wanted to set a variable then read from that variable inside the loop then reset that variable again and perform the loop ... ive had trouble where it actually wont read that variable from the loop because it doesnt set it fast enough to read from inside the loop and ended up with a blank list of nothing ........
