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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
+<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
+and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-0422EDC4-E17C-5E58-BB37-03CCA79ED3E9" xml:lang="en"><title>How
+to Wait for a Given Time Period</title><shortdesc>Explains how to use timers to suspend a thread for a given time
+period.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>Once the timer has been created and initialised, a request can be set up.</p>
+<ul>
+<li id="GUID-252BD68A-05F6-57D0-98E1-4BE2B0B7D2D6"><p>start the timer to complete
+after a set period by calling <codeph>After()</codeph>, passing the required
+period in microseconds</p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-7D5F4F30-6AD5-5532-A9BE-015EE4632842"><p>call <codeph>User::WaitForRequest()</codeph> to
+wait for completion</p> </li>
+</ul>
+<p>In the following example, the thread is suspended for a 1 second. <codeph>timerStatus</codeph> is
+a <codeph>TRequestStatus</codeph>.</p>
+<codeblock id="GUID-4F3CC22C-220D-5B29-8335-2757C47C8763" xml:space="preserve">timer.After(timerStatus,1000000);
+User::WaitForRequest(timerStatus); 
+</codeblock>
+</conbody></concept>
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