cant find command

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potter

(Posted 2013) [#1]

I cant seem to find a way to pause or make the program wait for a specified amount of time

Yasha

(Posted 2013) [#2]

Delay will make the program wait for the given number of milliseconds.

Note that Delay is absolute - there is no action you can take while a program is Delay-ed that will make it resume, or do anything at all until the time is up, so it's generally only useful for pausing in very simple programs indeed. A more advanced pause function like you might see in a graphical video game is something you need to code up by hand, to suit your project.

Midimaster

(Posted 2013) [#3]

if you want to stop program execution DELAY is ok, but if you want, that the user has to wait for some time, you would use a millisecs() timer

Graphics 800,600

Repeat
	Cls
	
	; press the mouse to get a rest
	If MouseHit(1)
		PauseTime=MilliSecs()+2000
	EndIf
	
	; change a value
	If PauseTime<MilliSecs()
		Circle=Circle +2
	EndIf
	
	; paint something
	X=Sin(Circle)*200
	Y=Cos(Circle)*200
	Oval X+400,Y+300,30,30
	Text 30,30,MilliSecs()
	Flip 1
Until KeyHit(1)