Re: How to let the main application sleep ?

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From: Andrew Bennett
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00

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Luigi Fonti wrote:

> In a thread, you can use sleep(millisecs) or wait(millisecs) to suspend
> the activity.
> But, how can you force the main application to sleep for a given time ?
> The compiler doesn't allow calling these methods in the main
> application: you can use them only in a trhead.

I wouldn't recommend it, but I'll do psuedo code here.  Implementation
is up to you:

get system time
while (current time <= original time + desired sleep time)
// do nothing
endwhile

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