Whats the alternative to using windows' "Sleep" in the windows environment? Specifically, I'm trying create a delay when the player touches a switch (its a boolean switch/*on/off*/) so that the switch doesn't remain turned on at the time the collision is true.
Why do you need an alternative ?
i need to apply this into my Digital image processing project which require dynamic gesture capturing from web camera. While using sleep function the video streaming stops for the time given as parameter. i only intend to skip the execution of one command and not stop entire program.
Wouldn't that be better handled by a boolean conditional rather than an actual sleep function?Originally Posted by aswinkgopan
Right, then rather than having the program wait at a particular point, you simply want to perioducally check how much time has passed, by comparing the current time against some previously remembered time. If it's greater by at least a certain amount, then it's time to do that other thing.
The GetTickCount function is very useful for this.
Other options are to have Windows work out when it's time to do that special thing for you, using a WM_TIMER message and the functions associated with that.
Lastly, someone is bound to mention threading. However, without knowledge of how to do probably both of the above ways first, using threading (which is pretty much the hardest thing to get right in computer programming) would drive you completely insane before you got anything working 100%.
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