addendum: just occured to me that 15:1 would be about the ratio of ticks : milliseconds. but sleep() expects milliseconds on the mac as well, right?
Valentin Schmidt wrote: > hi list, > > I have an apple g4 (os x 10.3.3) where director's sleep() function > (UiHelper-xtra) doesn't work as it should. a simple sleep(1000) in the > message window needs about 15 seconds to return, and the ratio > consistently seems to be about 15:1 (sleep(200)->about 3 sec). apart > from this directors's timing seems to be ok. has anyone experienced > this before, or have any ideas where this could come from (e.g. some > hardware issue)? > > thanks, > valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
