Re: [ql-users] QL S*Basic : Time wait routine.

[Stephen Meech]

Apologies if I seem to be conducting a conversation with myself here but I would welcome some input from others, especially if they could test this out on other hardware. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Meech To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Montesinos, Jimmy Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL S*Basic : Time wait routine.   Not going to help, I'm afraid.  Simon's TIMER_FRAMES_BAS indicates that QL2K has a frame-rate of about 24 here. It should be 50!   TIMER_FRAMES_BAS is essentially as follows:   LRESPR timing_code 100 REMark QL Timer routines - frame counter 110 REMark for QL World DIY Toolkit May 1989 120 T_ON : t=DATE 130 REPeat poll : IF DATE>t : EXIT poll 140 T_START : t=t+1 150 REPeat poll : IF DATE>t : EXIT poll 160 T_STOP 170 PRINT T_COUNT;" frames per second." As stated above, on QL2K this produces a count of 24 frames/sec.    However, if I insert a PAUSE 1 instruction within the loop at line 150 it produces a (?correct) count of about 50! Why?  Presumably, something about the way QL2K handles the frame counter and prevents it from updating.   If anyone is willing to test this elsewhere I can forward a copy of the relevant section of DIY Toolkit as supplied to me by Rich Mellor, although the whole package is available at http://romblon.dbs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~krojer/ql/diytk.zip.   Regards   Stephen   --- -- Outgoing mail is probably Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.484 / Virus Database: 282 - Release Date: 27/05/2003