topic WaitForIdle and sleep in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/WaitForIdle-and-sleep/m-p/181779#M47673 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Please let me know the difference between following two statements -</P><P>ActiveDocument.GetApplication.WaitForIdle</P><P><BR /> ActiveDocument.GetApplication.Sleep 2000</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:19:59 GMT 2010-06-09T07:19:59Z WaitForIdle and sleep https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/WaitForIdle-and-sleep/m-p/181779#M47673 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Please let me know the difference between following two statements -</P><P>ActiveDocument.GetApplication.WaitForIdle</P><P><BR /> ActiveDocument.GetApplication.Sleep 2000</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:19:59 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/WaitForIdle-and-sleep/m-p/181779#M47673 2010-06-09T07:19:59Z AW:WaitForIdle and sleep https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/WaitForIdle-and-sleep/m-p/181780#M47674 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Well, "Sleep" waits until the specified amount of time has elapsed, "WaitForIdle" waits until idle state has been reached - if that never happens due to whatsoever reason, macro execution waits forever unless you have specified a timeout.</P><P>Rgds,<BR />Joachim</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:27:14 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/WaitForIdle-and-sleep/m-p/181780#M47674 biester 2010-06-09T07:27:14Z