delay

hello all,

is there a delay ex. (command "delay" 5000)
as a vla functionn (vla-delay ... (vla-wait ???
or any function without having to use command

TIA

 

(vla-cmdf "DELAY" 1000)

..according to the good book.

Bob

 

thanks, but that is the same as a command,
i will give it a try...actually i was looking
for the one suggested by TT (i think),
which compared elapsed times, i am not
able to locate the sample code on my
system or as a search in this newsgroup.
thanks again
mark

 

Mark,

I don't know who the author is, maybe Tony.

;argument: Seconds expressed as real (0.1) or integer
(defun wait (seconds / stop)
(setq stop (+ (getvar "DATE")
(/ seconds 86400.0)))
(while (> stop (getvar "DATE"))(princ))
) ;end

Joe Burke

 

thanks, that is what i was looking for

 

That argument line may be confusing.

example:
(wait 0.5)

Joe Burke

 

Hi Joe,

I have that same exact function in my toolbox and recall that it was
posted by Tony. So I assume he wrote it.

The problem with the Delay command is that it doesn't work good for very
short delays. The wait user function works well.

Sometimes I find coding situations where using something like this fine
tunes the delay better:

(repeat 500 (princ))

However, as our computers become faster, I find I must increase the
number of repeats to maintain the same effect. i.e. Pentium 1 machine
repeat 100 times, Pentium 4 machine repeat 500.

End of blab...

Regards,
Steve Doman

 

Hi Steve,

I thought wait was Tony's, but I don't have an author noted. Agreed, I never had much
luck with delay. I guess the other method you mentioned proves what Intel advertises
as faster really is, though sometimes I wonder.

Aside while you are reading here. I was doing some research on vectors this evening.
Ran across a discussion between you and Jon Fleming from 1998 regarding a program you
were working on called "split". It was intended to offset a line both ways in 3D
space. Jon posted fairly complex solution which I haven't studied yet. The next to
last Google message listed in that thread was from you saying thanks to Jon and, "now
it's my turn to reflect on this code..."

So I'm wondering how it turned out. For instance, did Jon's code do the trick?

Joe Burke

 

Joe,

Just a quick note because I've got to get back to work. Jon's code
worked very well. If your interested, I posted split[20] on my really
cool website:

http://www.users.qwest.net/~sdoman/

I use Split frequently, but haven't looked at the code for a couple
years. I should update it to todays standards. Jon the "Transformer",
really helped me out. (thanks Jon if your watching)

Regards,
Steve Doman

 

Thanks, Steve. A working example will be a great help.

Way cool website, indeed. ;-)

Joe

 

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