a note on pauses..

[ogurty]

I've been looking over a few scripts on this forum, and just one note for you...pause .5 will not pause for half a second. If "pause" is not followed by a positive nonzero integer, it will register as just "pause" which is slightly more than one second, perhaps 1.5 seconds. If you don't believe me, run the following script, it makes it pretty obvious:

#pause

put l
pause 1
put l
pause 2
put l
pause .5
put l

Just so you know. Thanks for all the ideas in the various threads, this board has really improved my scripting.

Hunter

[imported_Kranar]

Yeah, it's a habit of mine, in hopes that perhaps someday pause .5 will really pause for .5 seconds.

But you're right, "pause .5" or "pause $#!+" just pauses for about 1 second.