Thread: delay or sleep?

i posted a thread some while ago about sleep i wanted to sleep for 0.5 seconds this woldnt work because its sleep(int)
then why dont use delay(500) because it does the same but
in my last thread about sleep nobody mentioned delay() is this a "bad function" like gets()???

Sleep does accept an integer. But, Sleep uses miliseconds so you'd actually want to specify 500. Specifiying 500 would pause for half a second.

Originally posted by Shadow
Sleep does accept an integer. But, Sleep uses miliseconds so you'd actually want to specify 500. Specifiying 500 would pause for half a second.

as said sleep uses an integer i dont know if its on all compilers but try to do sleep(500);
it wont sleep for half a second it wil sleep for 500 sec.
thats how it is on my compiler Bc 4.5...
and oh before i said sleep was ansi but it appears not to be ansi
so why do i see a lot of people using sleep while its not ansi and delay is???

Originally posted by Monster
UNIX/Linux: sleep(seconds) - unistd.h
Windows API: Sleep(miliseconds) - windows.h

all of this is very cool .......... BUT if i include windows.h the compiler says cannot include windows.h .....

If you don't have unistd.h or windows.h then you should get a newer compiler.

Is borland compiler C++ 4.52 not "new" enough .....?

i doubt it, Borland's latest compiler is 6, I use the free 5.5 compiler and it has windows.h.

Damn this , i even got this one for "free"+its not a student compiler hmm now i know what the Santa is gonna bring me...

Just a little question. Is there an easy way to write my own sleep ( ) function that works with milliseconds?

You can get a really good completely free upgrade at http://www.borland.com/products/down...cbuilder.html#. It's the one I use and it's great. It's the second one on the list.
yea, you can write your own sleep, but it's not a good idea. If you really have to, you can do something like this.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

waitie(double seconds){
    clock_t end = clock() + (seconds * CLOCKS_PER_SEC);

    while (clock() < end)
        ;
}

main(){
    int stat = 0;

    while (stat < 100){
        printf("Status:%d%%\r", stat++);
        waitie(.2);
    }

    printf("Complete...\n");
}

No need to wait, there are plenty of truly free compilers available

Do you mean with truly free that all the functions are available and the apps compiled on that compiler will also work on aonther system then the system where the app is created on?

And lcc-win32(hate to say this ), but i think thats a really bad compiler(IMO).

thx for the example Pioneer (although someone said that code was crap ill use it because i need a thing that can sleep for 0.5 sec no matter what)

Didn't we allready go over how no-no this was??

yup we did, but if you need a sleep(0.5) and u dont have windows.h "everything" will do. It's like Makavelli said:
(not sure bout the translation into english)the purpose "holies" the ways.Or something like that.