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Re: [DOS] How to code for a time delay? - DONE

• Posted by Alex Caracatsanis <sunpsych at ncable.com.au> May 28, 2007
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Thanks alot for your replies, gents.

Chris, I've taken a copy of your solution for future reference, as it is
beyond my capabilities at the moment.

Don, thanks for your procedure delay(), using time().

And Juergen, thanks for demonstrating use of tick_rate().

I set this problem as an exercise for me, to learn how to use routines
related to time, and I expected some challenges with time(), sleep(),
and tick_rate(). With your help I've seen examples of all three.

For what it's worth, here's the solution I devised by myself - part trial,
part intuition. I suspect that it's not the most efficient, but it seems
to work in this limited example.

constant MAX_STARS = 200,
         SCREEN = 1,
         TRUE = 1,
         DELAY = 0.04 -- wait 0.04 secc

atom startTime, stopTime, interval

startTime = 0
stopTime = 0
interval = (stopTime - startTime)

for i = 1 to MAX_STARS do
     puts( SCREEN, "*" )

     -- new line/tab across every 60 characters
     if remainder( i, 60 ) = 0 then 
          puts( SCREEN, "\n\t")
     end if

     startTime = time()
     while TRUE do
          stopTime = time()
          if (interval >= DELAY) then exit end if
     end while
end for

If you feel moved to comment or improve on this code, I'll gladly accept the
tuition. In any case, thank you all very much for your help with this.

Alex Caracatsanis