Using a timer to "sleep"

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From: Brian Goble
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 23:17

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I have a Timer installed in my Win3 app and it gets called directly (ie, no
WM_TIMER msg gets sent to my application).  The timer gets called at approx.
1 second intervals.  In the timer callback function, I increment a global
variable "TimerCounter".

What I would like to do is use this TimerCounter value to be able to
do delays like when I display a message or something.  I tried something
like:

	TimerCounter = 0;
	while (TimerCounter < 5) { TimerCounter = TimerCounter; /* nothing */

but it just spins in the loop.  Does the timer callback function not
interrupt the current execution?  Is there a windows function or an MS C
function (like Turbo C's "sleep()") that will do a delay?

Thanx in advance for any help...

Brian Goble		| goble@wolf.cs.washington.edu

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Subject: Using a timer to "sleep"
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