Re: Question on C

[John K Luebs <jkluebs luebsphoto com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:00:26AM +0100, Daniel Miralles Garc?a wrote:
> > This hasnt anything to do with GTK+ but I was wondering would any one
> > know how to program in a delay( say a delay of 2 seconds after clicking
> > on a button before another event happens). Cheer
>
> Hi.
>
> 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 :)

You should probably name it something other than pause as there is a
POSIX function of the same name.

--jkl