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titaniumdecoy

Aug 8th, 2006 8:18 PM

Pause a program

I need to call a function every 1 second in my Windows (GUI) program. I have tried the following:

#include <windows.h>

...

while (true) {

    Sleep(1000);

}

This works, except it locks up the application between calls so nothing else can occur.

Does C++ (or the Windows API) have a built-in pause or timer function for this purpose? Thanks.

Game_Ender

Aug 8th, 2006 8:37 PM

This is what I got from a search on Win32 timer. This is a very common task, I am sure a cursory search of whatever docs you have, for whatever GUI framework you are using should show you its particular way of doing things.

Dameon

Aug 8th, 2006 8:59 PM

Game_Ender++

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AntiNinja

Aug 8th, 2006 9:00 PM

I know sry, didnt read the entire post. :(

titaniumdecoy

Aug 9th, 2006 1:41 PM

I found the instructions that link gave were a little too complicated. This tutorial was much easier to follow.

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