Re: How do I do a delay ?

[Willem-Jan Monsuwe <willem stack nl>]

)I need to slow down my output, so I could have a control over the delay
)time, and I was thinking about the best way to achieve this. I could use
)gtk_timeout_add() that executes a function once in a certain period of time
)but it is not quite like what I want and implementing a delay like that
)would be clumsy, wouldn't it? Does anyone have any idea on how I can
)achieve this?

No, gtk_timeout_add() executes a function only once if that function
returns 'false' so you could pretty easily use it as a one-shot timer.

It's the easiest way to do it if you don't want to stop the GUI.
The only other way would be to use multi-threading.

If it's no problem that the GUI stops dead, you can use any standard C
method, such as sleep(), usleep(), select(), or whatever.

But, having learnt OOP on an LPMud (A single-threaded, multi-user environment)
I strongly advise against stopping everything dead *just* because you want
a simple delay.

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