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The nop statement does nothing (no operation).

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Parameters

No parameters.

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Description

The nop statement does nothing (no operation). A procedure can use the nop statement as a placeholder or to delay for a short time.

This procedure will delay exactly 10 seconds.

local startTime
startTime=now()
loop
   nop
until now()>startTime+10

Another use for the nop statement is to fool Panorama into not displaying a warning dialog. When used as the last statement in a procedure, or just before a stop statement, statements like quit and closefile will ask the user if they want to save changes. By adding a nop statement you can prevent this alert from appearing.

if info("trigger") contains "Close w/o Save"
    closefile
    nop
    stop
endif

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See Also

• closefile -- closes the current database.
• quit -- quits Panorama.

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History

Version	Status	Notes
10.0	No Change	Carried over from Panorama 6.0.