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Re: Sleep function with fractional time...

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Nov 18, 2004
• 495 views

Thank you!
Rob, any reason why this is not used by the standard library?


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:09:25 -0800, rudy toews <guest at rapideuphoria.com>
wrote:
> Re: Eu locking harddrives   
> <http://statik.topica.com/lists/read/images/icon_pencil.gif>  >   BTW: How about
> allowing any atom as argument for sleep(), not only an
> integer? I just got an error message from Eu, because I tried to call
> sleep(0.5).
> 
> --for .exw (WinDoze)
> include dll.e
> include misc.e --for old sleep()
> constant
> k32=open_dll("kernel32"),
> zSleep=define_c_proc(k32,"Sleep",{C_UINT})
> --usage:
> --c_proc(zSleep,{x})
> --where x is in MILLISECONDS! --Zero allowed
> --demo is:
> printf(1,"%s\n",{"Start"})
> c_proc(zSleep,{3500})
> printf(1,"%s\n",{"3.5 seconds later..."})
> sleep(2) -- ;)
> 
> Nice, thank you.
> 
> Regards,
>    Juergen
> 
> i saved this message to my disk. this is all i have at moment.
> hope this is some of what you are looking for.
> rudy
> 
-- 
MrTrick