1. sleep() standard function
- Posted by Jeremy Peterson <ptl99 at hotmail.com>
Aug 18, 2006
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Last edited Aug 19, 2006
The sleep function included with Euphoria can only handle integer values.
Simply changing integer to atom in the function definition allows it to handle
fractional values as well.
Rob, d'you think you could change this for 3.0?
Thus saving anyone who needs to use fractional times the time of manually
changing it.
Jeremy
2. Re: sleep() standard function
- Posted by D. Newhall <derek_newhall at yahoo.com>
Aug 18, 2006
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Last edited Aug 19, 2006
Jeremy Peterson wrote:
>
> The sleep function included with Euphoria can only handle integer values.
>
> Simply changing integer to atom in the function definition allows it to handle
> fractional values as well.
>
> Rob, d'you think you could change this for 3.0?
> Thus saving anyone who needs to use fractional times the time of manually
> changing
> it.
>
> Jeremy
I agree. I ran into this problem recently too. In the meantime I've been using
this procedure:
-- Waits for a specific amount of time passed to it in seconds
global procedure wait(atom seconds)
atom start_time
start_time = time()
if integer(seconds) then
sleep(seconds)
else -- a floating point number
while time() - start_time < seconds do -- Nothing
-- Busy loop until `seconds` have elapsed
end while
end if
end procedure -- wait
3. Re: sleep() standard function
- Posted by "Kat" <kat12 at coosahs.net>
Aug 18, 2006
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Last edited Aug 19, 2006
>
>
> posted by: Jeremy Peterson <ptl99 at hotmail.com>
>
> The sleep function included with Euphoria can only handle integer
> values.
>
> Simply changing integer to atom in the function definition allows it
> to handle fractional values as well.
>
> Rob, d'you think you could change this for 3.0?
> Thus saving anyone who needs to use fractional times the time of
> manually changing it.
I already changed it to allow for zero. Zero doesn't sleep(), really,
but it does hand the remainder of the application's available
timeslice back to window's multitasker timeslicer.
Kat
4. Re: sleep() standard function
Jeremy Peterson wrote:
> The sleep function included with Euphoria can only handle integer values.
>
> Simply changing integer to atom in the function definition allows it to handle
> fractional values as well.
Yeah, it handles fractional values by rounding to an integer. 
> Rob, d'you think you could change this for 3.0?
> Thus saving anyone who needs to use fractional times the time of manually
> changing
> it.
It's something I'm looking into.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
5. Re: sleep() standard function
Hi,
I end up using Sleep() in the WinAPI too.
I think Watcom's sleep() takes only integer values doesnt it?
One thing i wouldnt like to see, and that is a new sleep()
function that uses a simple loop to waste time, because that
uses up all the processor time.
Perhaps you could also try a sleep function with resolution
down to a tenth of one second by creating a new thread that
does this. Tenth of a second resolution isnt too bad.
Take care,
Al
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