Display text slowly

[sampleandhold]

I tried one of the games in the game section of the cboard. It was a text adventure game and it displayed the text slowly(a little too slowly it was slower than reading speed). I looked at the code and I couldn't figure out how this is done. I also looked in the faq and I couldn't find anything.

How can I print text slowly onto the screen?

I'm making a text adventure game and this technique would really add some shine to my game!

[MK27]

You can use a delay such as sleep(). While sleep() is not standard, I think it will be available in one form or another most places. On *nix, it uses seconds, which one letter a second is too slow, but you can instead use something with finer granularity such as nanosleep().

[sampleandhold]

You can use a delay such as sleep(). While sleep() is not standard, I think it will be available in one form or another most places. On *nix, it uses seconds, which one letter a second is too slow, but you can instead use something with finer granularity such as nanosleep().

In the above mentioned game there was sleep() but my compiler gave the error message of "undefined rederence to 'sleep' ". So I looked up sleep in the faq and it said to use unistd.h, dos.h or windows.h , so i did and it still gave the same error message. In the faq it also said that sleep() is non-standard. Also covered in the faq was a sleep function :

#include <time.h> 


void sleep_seconds ( long seconds ) {
  clock_t limit, now = clock();
  limit = now + seconds * CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
  while ( limit > now )
    now = clock();
}


void sleep_ticks ( long ticks ) {
  clock_t limit, now = clock();
  limit = now + ticks;
  while ( limit > now )
    now = clock();
}


void wait(long milliseconds)
{
  long timeout = clock() + milliseconds;
  while( clock() < timeout ) continue;
}

Is this the same as sleep() but portable?

Also is there a way I can use sleep() with my compiler? I use code::blocks minGW.

[GReaper]

Is this the same as sleep() but portable?

It will produce the desired result, but it's nothing like any system's sleep. For instance, using sleep would minimize CPU usage, while yours will actually maximize it. Nice try though.

[sampleandhold]

It will produce the desired result, but it's nothing like any system's sleep. For instance, using sleep would minimize CPU usage, while yours will actually maximize it. Nice try though.

Actually I didn't make it. I found it in the faq section.

Is there a way I can use sleep() with my compiler code::blocks mingGW ?