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"Warren Stewart" <stewtech@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Something like sleep(500), or wait(500) to make app
> suspend execution for 500 ms?

Depends on what you mean by 500 ms.  If you mean precisely 500 ms, as in you
want something to happen exactly every 1/2 second, then the answer is 'no'.
If you mean at *least* 500 ms, then the answer is:

Sleep( 500 );

The reason is that b/c the Win32 family of operating systems are all
pre-emptive, non-realtime OS's, the best guarantee they can offer is that
your thread will not get the processor for at least the amount of time you
tell the OS you want your thread to be out of the queue.

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