How do you make time to wait before another command?

[award982]

title ^

[CManowar]

You first need to include this library:

#include <ctime> 

Then make a function, like this one:

void breakTime( int seconds)
{
    clock_t temp;
    temp = clock () + seconds * CLOCKS_PER_SEC ;
    while (clock() < temp) {}
}

A test run:

#include ".h"   // our function and ctime include is here & iostream.h

int main()
{
   for (int i=10; i!=0; i--) {
      cout << i << endl;
      breakTime(1);                  // wait 1 second
   }
   cout << "Fire!" << endl;
  
   return 0;
}

[jloundy]

why wouldnt you just use the sleep() function?

but i do admire your copy and paste skills

[helios]

why wouldnt you just use the sleep() function?

There's no such thing.
Not in the standard, anyway.

[kinley]

sleep() is part of unistd header file.
Just include
#include <unistd.h> to use that function.

[Zhuge]

<unistd.h> is not part of the standard. :P

Hence,

There's no such thing.
Not in the standard, anyway.

[cheesy]

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

int main()
{
     cout << "Statement 1... ";
     Sleep(5000); // Milliseconds, just use (Number of Seconds)*1000 for seconds
     cout << "Statement 2...";
     cin.get():
     return 0;
}

Works quite nicely.

[AngelGithara23]

Works quite nicely.

*cough* on windows *cough*

By the way, thanks guys for the <ctime> info.

[cheesy]

Yeah, sorry, not sure how to make this cross platform.

[jloundy]

not every programmer is writing a cross platform application,

[helios]

Why should you assume they aren't if they don't give any indication of the opposite?

[jloundy]

because you would think that a industrial programmer would already know the difference?

[firedraco]

Yeah, because the beginners forum is for industrial programmers >_>

[jloundy]

@firedraco, thanks thats exactly what im tryin to say