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Re: Suspending the flow of JS/ES execution

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On 9/12/13 12:53 PM, Mel Smith wrote:
> Hi:
>
>      I have the following JS/ES code:
>
>      function somefunc() {
>          // next line does a lot of work
>          MyNewAlert(cmsg) ;
>          // I want to stop execution here *until*
>          // my new alert function has finihed its work and returned
>
>          // that is, do not execute the next function until everrything
>          // is completed up to here
>
>          someobj.focus() ;
>
>          return ;
>      }
>
>
>      Hope someone can tell me what to do to suspend the flow of JS/ES
> execution until my new function is completed.
>
> Thanks for some guidance on this.
>
> --
> Mel Smith
>
>

Unless MyNewAlert goes out of its way to do something asynchronously, 
you've already got that.

If that is the case, you'll need to rely on callbacks.

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Suspending the flow of JS/ES execution "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-09-12 13:53 -0600
  Re: Suspending the flow of JS/ES execution Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-09-12 13:12 -0700
    Re: Suspending the flow of JS/ES execution "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-09-12 15:00 -0600
      Re: Suspending the flow of JS/ES execution JJ <duh@nah.meh> - 2013-09-13 04:53 +0700
        Re: Suspending the flow of JS/ES execution "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-09-12 18:42 -0600
        Re: Suspending the flow of JS/ES execution "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-09-13 09:09 -0600
          Re: Suspending the flow of JS/ES execution "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-09-13 10:11 -0600
            Re: Suspending the flow of JS/ES execution "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-09-13 13:07 -0600

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