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user10149464
user10149464

Reputation:

Is there some sort of a command for creating a delay in a program

Many people told me there is a better way to create a delay for X amount of milliseconds. People told me about sleep command and usleep(), but I failed to make that work.

Currently I'm using this:

void delay(unsigned int mseconds) {
    clock_t goal=mseconds+clock();
    while(goal>clock());
}

And by doing this

delay(500);
printf("Hello there");

I can make text appear half a second later, but I want to find a better way to do this since people told me this is a bad method to do it and that it can be not very accurate.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 192

Answers (2)

Swordfish
Swordfish

Reputation: 13134

Using musl libc you should be able to use thrd_sleep().

#include <threads.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    printf("Time: %s", ctime(&(time_t){time(NULL)}));
    thrd_sleep(&(struct timespec){.tv_sec=1}, NULL); // sleep 1 sec
    printf("Time: %s", ctime(&(time_t){time(NULL)}));
}

Upvotes: 0

user10149464
user10149464

Reputation:

I figured everything out!!! God I was dump when trying to make sleep() command work first time

#include<stdio.h>
#include<windows.h>

int main(){

    int load;
    int Loadwait=100

    for(load=0;load<100;load+=5){
        printf("Loading %d",load);
        Sleep(Loadwait);
        system("cls");
    }
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 1

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