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Colin B Maharaj
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 Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject: Re: Pausing a program for 5 seconds or more... |
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You've got this all wrong. Looping and pausing is not the same thing.
You can loop with a pause 'n' times and thus create a pause = pause x
'n' times. There is not timing in a loop.
Use something like Sleep to do this. Here is the help text.
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The Sleep function suspends the execution of the current thread for a
specified interval.
VOID Sleep(
DWORD dwMilliseconds // sleep time in milliseconds
);
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If you want to see the screen update, you can do a sleep in a loop like
this....
for (int i=0; i<50; i++)
{
Sleep(100);
Application->ProcessMessages();
}
Jean Boivin wrote:
| Quote: | Hello,
This is a quick question.
I want to pause a program for about 5 seconds and be able to show a message
in the Status bar of my application.
I used to do this :
for(i = 0; i<10000000;)
{
//Just as loop
i++;
}
For some reason, this is not working even if I put the counter to
10000000...(C++ Builder 6.0 is too fast...)
Do you have any idea how to pause a program to show a message.
Thanks for your help.
Jean Boivin
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