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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / How to use "wait" whitout stopping the whole program?

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Mussi
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Posted: 9th May 2003 00:01
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How to use "wait" whitout stopping the whole program?
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IanM
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Posted: 9th May 2003 00:05
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You don't - that's what wait does.

What are you trying to do?
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Posted: 9th May 2003 14:18
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If you want just one process to stop, set up its own basic timer. For example

startTime=timer()
if (startTime-timer())>1000
`continue with process
endif

Putting this in your program will do something after 1sec, i.e 1000 milliseconds.

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Posted: 9th May 2003 14:23
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dont you mean timer() - startTime ??? the way you have posted would go into negatibves and never reach 1000.
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Trev C
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Posted: 9th May 2003 17:20
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The wait command can already do that , just use:

wait 1000

Your prgram will then stop for 1000 milliseconds before continuing, and it is a lot easier to read

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Ooops, I re-read your request and see what you mean now, you just want one part of the program to hang, like bullet checking or something.

silly me x-d

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Maniac, you're right. Stupid me hehee.

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Mussi
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i mean that my program is executing different things at the same time but for one i need to use the wait command but i dont want to let the other executions wait.
see my point?

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It 's not clear what you want to do:
stop a certain action for some time or to trigger the action only when you want to...
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Set a timer, a flag, or a trigger for whatever operation you don't want to continue.

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Posted: 10th May 2003 02:34 Edited at: 10th May 2003 02:37
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If I read that question right, you will need to use the



The rest of the program will run but the FunctionContinue will not execute until five seconds after the initialisation of nEvent.

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