Sleep problem

[msx]

It  works perfectly without using SHOWSCREEN.

Thank you.

[Kitty Hello]

please put a SLEEP before that loop to enable some CPU relief where it works:

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FUNCTION Pause%: delay%
  LOCAL time_start% = GETTIMERALL()
  SLEEP delay%
  WHILE ABS(GETTIMERALL() - time_start) < delay
    // SHOWSCREEN
  WEND
ENDFUNCTION


[Slydog]

So, would this make sense then:

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FUNCTION Pause%: delay%
  LOCAL time_start% = GETTIMERALL()
  WHILE ABS(GETTIMERALL() - time_start) < delay
    SLEEP 1     // Sleep 1ms
  WEND
ENDFUNCTION
Whether SLEEP is working properly or not for the platform (iPod or PC), it will act the same, and giving your CPU some relief either way.

[Moebius]

It does make sense, but Gernot's example works just as well, if not better... (I doubt executing the code for a loop every millisecond would impede performance though)

[erico]

I believe the best way to use sleep is to make it at least 8h a day...
...sorry to bother a serious thread...just could not help as I haven't got sleep the last 3 days for ear infection

[DaCarSoft]

Hello!

This is my first post here.

Before of all, I would like to send my congratulations because of the work that makes possible GLBasic and the good answers of this community.

Now, I'm creating my own functions to work with GLBasic, and I also found that Sleep does not work in my iPad (iOS and SDK 4.2) while testing, but for me it does not work if it is inside of a loop.

I can workaround it in many ways, but reading this thread (as a newbie to GLBasic), I'm asking me now if the next code does make sense:

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FUNCTION Pause%: delay%
  LOCAL time_start% = GETTIMERALL()
  SLEEP delay%
  WHILE ABS(GETTIMERALL() - time_start) < delay
    HIBERNATE
  WEND
ENDFUNCTION

Thanks in advance!