thanks colin and roy, I must have missed this. good to know! valentin
Colin Holgate wrote: > At 5:01 PM +0100 2/24/05, Valentin Schmidt wrote: >> 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). > > Your timings are right, because the unit is a 1/60th of a second (the > exact ratio is 16.66666r:1). If you want to sleep for one second, use > a value of 60 for Macs and 1000 for PCs. > > [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!] [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!]
