Wait function

[michael_green]

I would like to be able to enter a loop and have the loop wait for a specified time (say 0.1 sec) between iterations. I presume this involves the function SignalObjectAndWait. The online help gives me a plethora of confusing information, but what I really need is one small example. Please could someone show me that way.

With many thanks in advance

Mike

[Jugoslav_Dujic]

You probably need plain Sleep (there are actually 3 versions, one from DFWIN, one from DFPORT, and SLEEPQQ from DFLIB, with slightly different semantics). SignalObjectAndWait, WaitForSingleObject & similar are used for inter-thread and inter-process synchronization.

Jugoslav

[pcurtis]

RECURSIVE SUBROUTINE delay_ms (howmany)
USE kernel32
IMPLICIT NONE
INTEGER,INTENT(IN):: howmany

!Win32 suspend function, allows the timeslice to be
!used by other threads until the timeout elapses
IF (howmany > 0) CALL sleep (howmany)
END SUBROUTINE delay_ms