nonblocking skill

Hi,

Is there a way to write a non-blocking skill function? What I want is
something like

myGrabLicense(lic#) which will try once a minute or something to get a
particular license and won't give up until it gets it. Then I want a
dialog box to pop up and tell me.

I think I know how to do this with something like

(while (not (lmCheckOut lic 5.0)) (sleep 60))
(myGotItDialog)

but of course this blocks and my entire cadence session is unresponsive
until I finally get the license in question.

Thanks
-Dan

 

Use: hiRegTimer( t_commandString x_tenthsOfSeconds ) => t/nil

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