Re: Question on C

[Tim Müller <zen18864 zen co uk>]

On Thursday 29 January 2004 10:00, Daniel Miralles García wrote:

> If you want a miliseconds pause, you can use this:
>
> void pause (int sec, int msec)
> {
>       struct timespec delay;
>       delay.tv_sec=sec;
>       delay.tv_nsec=msec*1000000;
>       nanosleep(&delay, NULL);
> }
>
> For instance, pause(0,250); makes a 0'250 seconds pause :)

Just because no one has mentioned it yet: GLib has g_usleep() to sleep for a 
number of microseconds, e.g.:

    g_usleep(G_USEC_PER_SEC/4);

to sleep for 0.25 seconds.

(the answer to the original question should be g_timeout_add() of course, as 
someone else has already mentioned).

Cheers
-Tim