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Wait for an amount of milliseconds

 

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The Win32 API has the function Sleep(ms : longint); for this purpose.

If you are working with D1, use the following function - it waits for a given amount of milliseconds.
It allows the current application and other applications to process incoming messages:

procedure Delay(ms : longint);
var
  t1 : longint;
begin
  t1 := GetTickCount;
  while (GetTickCount - t1) < ms do
    Application.ProcessMessages;
end;

Comments:

2007-04-13, 09:42:19
anonymous from United Kingdom  
rating
While this delay works fine if its used on a computer that is rebooted regularly, the gettickcount function returns a DWORD value of number of milliseconds since windows started, so the t1 variable really should be a longword if you ever use in a program thats run on a machine that gets left on for long periods of time...

procedure Delay(ms : longint);
var
t1 : longword;
begin
t1 := GetTickCount;
while (GetTickCount - t1) < ms do
Application.ProcessMessages;
end;
2008-05-17, 05:10:20
anonymous from Iran  
I am very hard Nokar.
thanks for your guidence.

 

 

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