staying in a while loop for x seconds

ijack March 1, 2011 at 09:39:57

Use a Windows timer.

StuartS March 1, 2011 at 10:49:04

Depending on what you are trying to achieve you could use the sleep API. A lot simpler, just suspends the application for the designated period of time. Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) Stuart

ijack March 1, 2011 at 12:16:20

Yes, you're right. For a straightforward delay the Sleep call is easier. The C declaration is: VOID WINAPI Sleep(__in DWORD dwMilliseconds); and you need to include the header "Winbase.h" and link against the library Kernel32.lib (both of which you may well be doing already).

shutat March 1, 2011 at 18:36:46

You can make a crude sort of timer using standard c/c++ if portability is an issue. include time.h or ctime time_t t1, t2; t1 = time(NULL); do { t2 = time(NULL); } while(t1 + seconds_to_wait > t2);