Re: How to let the main application sleep ?

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From: Ben Starr
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:00

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Could you just have a single block in your main method which creates a
thread which is essentially your main program (ie: it contains all the
program logic). Don't know if this is a good idea...

Ben Starr
BenS@commonpurpose.org.uk

Luigi Fonti wrote in message <371F06EF.1C2628DE@infn.it>...
>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.
>Luigi Fonti.
>
>

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