Delay in Loops?

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I was wondering if there was any way to put a delay in a loop. Specifically, I’m looping through an array of words and I want to adjust the speed at which the words are spoken. If it’s in the documentation, I’m not seeing it.

Thanks!

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speak("Hello") App.SleepCurrentThread(1000) speak("world")

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A loop may freeze the UI ; you may want to use a timer instead to send the words to Speak.

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Thanks for the input guys! Nothing’s working. Don’t worry, I’ll figure something out.

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The timer should work.

Put the sentences to say in an array, and have something like this in the Action event of a multiple timer :

[code]Static pointer as integer

If pointer <= sentences.ubound
Speak sentences(pointer)
Pointer = Pointer + 1
else
me.Mode = Timer.ModeOff
end if
[/code]

You control the interval with the timer period.

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That worked Michel. Very much appreciated, thank you.

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…And sorry for marking my comment as the answer. I don’t know how that happened but it was purely unintentional. Thanks again!

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It’s alright, Robert. Glad to have been of help :slight_smile:

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Thanks, Michel. One problem though; I’m not able to get the timer to fire again. Searching the discussions, I found that this was a known bug back in 2015. Has this persisted? Below is one of the many things I’ve tried with no success:

If pointer <= combinedVocab.ubound Then Speak combinedVocab(pointer) Pointer = Pointer + 1 else Timer1.Mode = Timer.ModeOff TextArea1.Text = "" Timer1.Mode = Timer.ModeMultiple // Attempt to reset the timer. End If End If

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What do you want to obtain exactly ?

from what I see, you are trying to restart the timer, but you don’t reset pointer to zero.

And I don’t really see the logic of setting mode to off to set it to multiple two lines later. You might as well not change mode at all.

BTW, I checked, the timer does restart just fine.

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That was the problem; I wasn’t setting pointer back to zero. In regards to setting mode to multiple almost immediately, it’s the only way I know of to get the timer to restart after mode was set to off. But you’re right; not changing mode at all, and then adding a stop event is a better way to go. Everything is working great now. Thanks again, Michel!