OpenEuphoria

Re: just like the movies

• Posted by jbrown1050 at hotpop.com Jan 25, 2003
• 388 views

procedure delay(integer pause)
	--pause is the number of seconds to delay,
	--i use a while loop instead of sleep() as that
	--allows subsecond precision.
	t = time() + pause
	while time() < t do
		--waiting ... watching ... changing ;]
	end while
end procedure
global function putsy(integer h, sequence text)
	--passing h as an integer lets it work on other things beside the
	--screen, not sure why you'd want to do this tho ...
	if h = -1 then
		--return error
		return -1
	end if
	for i = 1 to length(text) do
		puts(h, text[i])
		delay(5) --pause every 5 seconds (use rand() if you want a random pause)
	end for
	--return success
	return 0
end function

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:50:07PM -0500, dubetyrant at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know of an algorithm that will display characters and numbers in a
> sequencial fashion,
> with a slight delay in between each character, "just like in the movies". I
> was hoping someone could
> just kind of point me in the right direction, I just have no idea how to
> approach it...should I try to
> use the time() function to cause the delay? Because I want it to work on any
> machine, regardless of
> speed.
> 
>  Thanks in advance,
> JDUBE
> 
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