Am Samstag, den 04.03.2006, 19:33 +0100 schrieb Vincent Snijders:
> Marc Santhoff wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the subject tells what I'm searching for:
> >
> > How can i wait a definit amount of time in a platform independant way?
> >
> > I need to pause a while loop for 1 second. The program should run at
> > least on FreeBSD and Windows.
> >
> > <snip>
> > while NOT doStop do begin
> > { wait a little }
> >
> > doSomethingUseful;
> > end;
> > </snip>
> >
> > At the moment I'm thinking of using something like
> > "Application.ProcessMessages" and measuring the time explicitely, but a
> > simple "Wait(1000)" would be best. :)
> >
>
> What about sleep:
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/sleep.html
Yes, that's it.
Note to myself: do not use old docs for fpc 1.9.4.
Thank you all,
Marc
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