OpenEuphoria

questions from a newbie

• Posted by Thys de Jong <thys at SCSINTERNET.COM> Jan 01, 1999
• 494 views

First  of all Happy New Year one and all.

I downloaded euphoria about a week ago and am greatly impressed
however I have a few questions:

1:

does any one know a routine for a wait command that could be invoked
in say milliseconds like:

wait(500) or delay(500) ???

presently I am using:

integer i
i = 1
while i < 5000000
do
i = i + 1
end while

of course this routine is dependant upon the processor speed, and not
entirely accurate. On mine it gives roughly a 1 second delay.

any bright ideas????

2:

in text mode any ideas how to print a character to row 25 column 80
without scrolling the screen????

3:

I'm writing a menu program and have run into a setback:

a: using "system" to run programs out of the menu I tried to use:

system("c:\\mydir\\subdir\\my.exe",0)

however this consistently fails to work

I must use:

system("c:",0) system(" cd \\mydir\\subdir",0) system("my.exe",0)

this causes an extensive amount of flashing.

anyone know a better idea????

b:

some programs when run out of the menu defy all my attempts to have
it return to the menu upon exitting the program ( i.e. Word Perfect 6
for dos)

this not only happens on my own menu program but also one that I
downloaded from archives.

anyone know a way to fix this???

thanks for your help.

Thys de Jong