Pausing program for specified # of seconds in THINK C

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5 total messages Started by Bill A. Oyler Mon, 21 Aug 1995 05:03

Author: Bill A. Oyler
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 05:03

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Hello,

Is there a toolbox command I can use to "pause" my program for the desired
number of seconds (or ticks, if necessary)?  All I need to do is pause for
about 4 seconds while a splash screen is displayed...

Thanks!

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Re: Pausing program for specified # of seconds in THINK C

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Author: Martin Adler
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:38

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In article <oylerb-2108950003230001@msp1-5.nas.mr.net>,
oylerb@tdkt.skypoint.net (Bill A. Oyler) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a toolbox command I can use to "pause" my program for the desired
> number of seconds (or ticks, if necessary)?  All I need to do is pause for
> about 4 seconds while a splash screen is displayed...
> 
> Thanks!

there is a toolbox-routine:

# include <OSUtils.h>

...

Delay (ticks,&finalTicks);

/* in ticks should be the desired duration of the delay in 1/60-seconds,
so 240 should be approx. 4 seconds 
in finalTicks you get back the system-time since start up on return, (i
think you don't need this) */

...

Gulpi
= Martin Adler

Re: Pausing program for specified # of seconds in THINK C

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Author: F. Degott
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:55

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In article <oylerb-2108950003230001@msp1-5.nas.mr.net>,
oylerb@tdkt.skypoint.net (Bill A. Oyler) wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Is there a toolbox command I can use to "pause" my program for the desired
>number of seconds (or ticks, if necessary)?  All I need to do is pause for
>about 4 seconds while a splash screen is displayed...
>
>Thanks!
>

Hi Bill,
there is a proc. called Delay (OS Utilities)

PROCEDURE Delay (numTicks: LONGINT; VAR finalTicks: LONGINT);

numTicks describe the time to delay in 1/60 sec.

to pause your program for 4 seconds:

Delay(240,fTicks);

Hope this helps.
Fr
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Re: Pausing program for specified # of seconds in THINK C

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Author: Derick J.R. Qua-Gonzalez
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:20

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oylerb@tdkt.skypoint.net (Bill A. Oyler) writes:

>Is there a toolbox command I can use to "pause" my program for the desired
>number of seconds (or ticks, if necessary)?  All I need to do is pause for
>about 4 seconds while a splash screen is displayed...

toolbox? What's that?

Try the sleep function if you have it, or a loop that gets the time
repeatedly until four seconds have expired (may do something short in
the interim).

Best regards,
Derick.
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Re: Pausing program for specified # of seconds in THINK C

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Author: Scott A. Johnson
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:15

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In article <oylerb-2108950003230001@msp1-5.nas.mr.net>,
oylerb@tdkt.skypoint.net (Bill A. Oyler) wrote:

> Is there a toolbox command I can use to "pause" my program for the desired
> number of seconds (or ticks, if necessary)?  All I need to do is pause for
> about 4 seconds while a splash screen is displayed...

Yes, the call you're looking for is Delay and takes two parameters, e.g.:

    // do stuff

    Delay( kFourSecondsInTicks, &finalTicks );

    // continue doing stuff

The first parameter is how long you want to delay (yes, in ticks).
The second is the address of a long into which the system will return
how many ticks have gone by from system startup to the end of 
the delay.

The delay call may or may not "pause" exacty the number of ticks
you specify but it usually won't be off by more than 1 tick.

Hope this helps,
Scott

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