Sleep Function is not sleeping. Topic is solved

[SirSocks]

Hello -

I'm having a problem with the sleep function not sleeping.
I have the sleep set to 60000 (60 seconds). But it only sleeps for 0.25 (250 milliseconds). Please see the image below.
Why is this? Does anyone have suggestions to fix it?



This is the first time it's happened to me. Has anyone else experienced this?
All help is appreciated, Thank you.

[gregster]

Just a guess:
Make sure that there is no invisible unicode character in this line - sometimes they can get somehow included when you copy and paste code and lead to unexpected results.

I would delete that line and completely re-type it. I hope that works.
But I don't see why the sleep would be 250 ms That's strange.

[Xtra]

Could be getting interrupted from another Thread.
Example:

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#NoEnv

start := A_TickCount
SetTimer, interupt, -250
Sleep 60000
MsgBox % A_TickCount - start
ExitApp

interupt:
    MsgBox, Sleep interrupt
return

Run and when message box is open double click ahk icon and look at the last executed lines.

[SirSocks]

@Xtra I think you may be onto something, as I do have timers in my script. But how would a person avoid this interruption?

[Xtra]

Take a look at: Critical

[SOTE]

Hello -

I'm having a problem with the sleep function not sleeping.
I have the sleep set to 60000 (60 seconds). But it only sleeps for 0.25 (250 milliseconds). Please see the image below.
Why is this? Does anyone have suggestions to fix it?



This is the first time it's happened to me. Has anyone else experienced this?
All help is appreciated, Thank you.

It's quite impressive that Xtra was able to make a useful guess as to what was going on. But I think you were lucky. In the future, you might want to post more of your program, to actually show what you are doing. Does not have to be the entire program, but at least the complete subroutine or function, so that those who will help can fully understand what you are talking about.

Just saying, because I notice people will oddly hide information, and volunteers will be playing 50 guesses trying to figure out what the OP is talking about.