How to write a time delay function?

[Chen Shusheng]

Hello,
I want to write a time delay function like "Timedelay(floa t time_lenth){}".
When execute it, it will delay some seconds as long as "time_lenth "
indicating. Could you help on how to write such a function?

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[markpapadakis]

Chen Shusheng wrote:

Hello,
I want to write a time delay function like "Timedelay(floa t time_lenth){}".
When execute it, it will delay some seconds as long as "time_lenth "
indicating. Could you help on how to write such a function?

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usleep() is one way to do it ( whereas it is supported ).

[Richard Heathfield]

Chen Shusheng said:

Hello,
I want to write a time delay function like "Timedelay(floa t
time_lenth){}".
When execute it, it will delay some seconds as long as "time_lenth "
indicating. Could you help on how to write such a function?

#include <time.h>

void Timedelay(float time_lenth)
{
time_t start = time(NULL);
time_t end;
do
{
end = time(NULL);
} while(difftime( end, start) < time_lenth);
}

(Presumably 'lenth' is meaningful somewhere in the world.)

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Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)

[Chen Shusheng]

Thanks.
"Richard Heathfield" <in*****@invali d.invalid>
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Chen Shusheng said:

>Hello,
I want to write a time delay function like "Timedelay(floa t
time_lenth){}".
When execute it, it will delay some seconds as long as "time_lenth "
indicating. Could you help on how to write such a function?

#include <time.h>

void Timedelay(float time_lenth)
{
time_t start = time(NULL);
time_t end;
do
{
end = time(NULL);
} while(difftime( end, start) < time_lenth);
}

(Presumably 'lenth' is meaningful somewhere in the world.)

--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)

[Keith Thompson]

Richard Heathfield <in*****@invali d.invalidwrites :

Chen Shusheng said:

> I want to write a time delay function like "Timedelay(floa t
time_lenth){}".
When execute it, it will delay some seconds as long as "time_lenth "
indicating. Could you help on how to write such a function?

#include <time.h>

void Timedelay(float time_lenth)
{
time_t start = time(NULL);
time_t end;
do
{
end = time(NULL);
} while(difftime( end, start) < time_lenth);
}

(Presumably 'lenth' is meaningful somewhere in the world.)

That's a portable way to do it, but not a good way to do it. By
calling time() repeatedly in a loop, it's likely (on a
multi-processing system) to gobble lots of CPU time.

Most systems provide a way to do this kind of thing, though standard C
doesn't.

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[Richard Bos]

"Chen Shusheng" <cs*****@gmail. comwrote:

I want to write a time delay function like "Timedelay(floa t time_lenth){}".
When execute it, it will delay some seconds as long as "time_lenth "
indicating. Could you help on how to write such a function?

You use a system-specific function, which you can ask for in a
system-specific newsgroup.
Alternatively, you _could_ use a busy-loop, and be killed by your
systems manager for tying up the system.

Richard

[Chen Shusheng]

"Richard Bos" <rl*@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nlд ÈëÏûÏ¢ÐÂÎÅ:45** *************** @news.xs4all.nl ...

"Chen Shusheng" <cs*****@gmail. comwrote:

> I want to write a time delay function like "Timedelay(floa t
time_lenth){}" .
When execute it, it will delay some seconds as long as "time_lenth "
indicating. Could you help on how to write such a function?

You use a system-specific function, which you can ask for in a
system-specific newsgroup.
Alternatively, you _could_ use a busy-loop, and be killed by your
systems manager for tying up the system.

Richard

My system is windowsXP. Where should I post to get the answer? Could you pls
indicate?

[Richard Heathfield]

Keith Thompson said:

<snip>

That's a portable way to do it, but not a good way to do it.

He didn't ask for a good way to do it. By posting in comp.lang.c, he asked
for a comp.lang.c way to do it.

--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

Chen Shusheng wrote:

"Richard Bos" <rl*@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nlд ÈëÏûÏ¢ÐÂÎÅ:45** *************** @news.xs4all.nl ...

>"Chen Shusheng" <cs*****@gmail. comwrote:

>> I want to write a time delay function like "Timedelay(floa t
time_lenth){} ".
When execute it, it will delay some seconds as long as "time_lenth "
indicating. Could you help on how to write such a function?

You use a system-specific function, which you can ask for in a
system-specific newsgroup.
Alternativel y, you _could_ use a busy-loop, and be killed by your
systems manager for tying up the system.

Richard

My system is windowsXP. Where should I post to get the answer? Could you pls
indicate?

Start at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ . If you need a newsgroup - query
your news server for windows programming groups.

[John F]

"Nils O. Selåsdal" wrote:

Chen Shusheng wrote:

>"Richard Bos" <rl*@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl>
дÈëÏûÏ¢ÐÂÎÅ:4 5************** ***@news.xs4all .nl...

>>"Chen Shusheng" <cs*****@gmail. comwrote:

I want to write a time delay function like "Timedelay(floa t
time_lenth){ }".
When execute it, it will delay some seconds as long as
"time_lent h"
indicating . Could you help on how to write such a function?
You use a system-specific function, which you can ask for in a
system-specific newsgroup.
Alternatively , you _could_ use a busy-loop, and be killed by your
systems manager for tying up the system.

Richard

My system is windowsXP. Where should I post to get the answer?
Could
you pls indicate?

Start at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ . If you need a newsgroup -
query
your news server for windows programming groups.

The things to look for are SetTimer and KillTimer... These are
Windows-API and thus off topic here. Just to provide a reference for
future lookups. If you need higher resolution use the
multimedia-timer. It's also described there.

HTH
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