Thread: Loop speed

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    Loop speed

    Hi, I asked my computer programming teacher if there was a way to slow a loop down...she said yes but she wasn't sure how...can someone here tell me how to slow the loop down...so I can make it loop every 5 seconds etc... Thanks

    -Nick

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    this is os specific and sometimes compiler specific too.

    I have used sleep() from dos.h
    Sleep() from windows.h

    some compilers also offer a delay() function. Check for those in your helpfiles.
    Free the weed!! Class B to class C is not good enough!!
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    I am fairly new at this code so can you include a sample code
    Thanks I appreciate it.

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    Code:
    #include<windows.h>
    #include<iostream>
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
    cout<<"This should appear straight away"<<endl;
    Sleep(5000); // millisecs
    cout<<"This should appear roughly 5 secs after"<<endl;
    return 0;
    }
    not tried it.
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    it worked ...but whats this "using namespace std;" that gave me an error so I took it out and it worked. What does that do?

    Thanks for the code
    -Nick

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