Time Delay

I was wondering if anyone had a code for a time delay. What im trying to do is make a program to help out my Americas Army gameing clan to execute scripts that protect against hackers. What i need to even start off the program is a part that will delay the time for 8 seconds before executing another script. it is important to have a delay or else they will all run at the same time and it wont even work. Any help is appreciated. :cool:

What you're looking for is called a sleep function, but it is not standard. What platform will the be running on? You can do a board search to find some advice on multiplatform APIs containing sleep functions, or search google.

This question has been asked many times before, a board search for 'delay' or 'time delay' will probably yield you plenty of info. A quick method is:

Code:

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#include <windows.h>
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Sleep(8000);

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**EDIT**
Of course, this is assuming you're running Windows ;)

It will be running off of a windows xp platform, what will happen is the game will call the program and then the program will call the scripts every 8 seconds or so.

In that case, Sleep() is probably the most straightforward method to use. Otherwise, if you care to set up a Win32 API application, you can set a timer to run scripts every 8 seconds.

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Originally Posted by Hunter2

This question has been asked many times before, a board search for 'delay' or 'time delay' will probably yield you plenty of info. A quick method is:

Code:

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#include <windows.h>
...
Sleep(8000);

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**EDIT**
Of course, this is assuming you're running Windows ;)

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now im new to this sleep function would i put sleep before or after each script.

example:

script one
sleep
script two

Then Hunter2's method should work. MSDN is a very good reference for how to do things under Windows, but the best method of searching it is actually to use google, but add MSDN to your search terms.

edit: When the function is called, the next line of code isn't executed until the delay is up, so you should put the delay between the two functions you want to put a pause in between.

All Sleep() does is delay execution for the specified number of milliseconds (1/1000 second). Where you decide to delay is completely up to you.

ok i did a test with sleep and when i went to compile it said 'sleep' : undeclared identifier and it wont finish any reasons why?

Code:

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#include <windows.h>
...
Sleep(8000);

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if bolding means i didnt include the include then it still wont work because i did included windows.h and its not working. if it helps im using VC++6.0

Then this code should work for you.

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::cin;

int main() {

    cout <<"This is a message before a wait of 2 seconds" << endl;
    Sleep(2000);
    cout << "This should be 2 seconds later"<<endl;

    cin.get();
    return 0;
}

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Note the capital S

thanks andyhunter that worked. thanks to the rest of you guys for the quick responses