Please help about the thread sleep

[jianglong0156]

I want to use the loadVars every 1 second,
like:
while(1)
{
loadVars("connect.dat","player");
sleep(1000);
}

but there is no function like sleep in GE , and I don't want to
use the Timer ,because I have a lot of codes want to loadVars like this.

Is there any function like the sleep to implements it?

[savvy]

use a proper timer, set the number to 1000(1 second) then in the timer add script editor: loadVars("connect.dat","player");
sleep(1000); <-whatever that does

[jianglong0156]

use a proper timer, set the number to 1000(1 second) then in the timer add script editor: loadVars("connect.dat","player");
sleep(1000); <-whatever that does

Is there other method to implements this function ? I don't want to use the timer.

[Game A Gogo]

create a variable (Let's say "i")
in the draw actor, have

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if(i>=real_fps*1)//change 1 for the number of seconds, or remove the multiplication if you're going to keep this at one
{
loadVars("connect.dat","player");
i=0;
}
i++;

[DilloDude]

In this case, I'd probably use a constant (30, or whatever the framerate is) rather than using real_fps, as using real_fps will give you "real" time, rather than game time. Game time is generally better to work with for in-game stuff, because it's always synchronized with itself, even when the game lags.

If you wanted to use "real" time, you're probably better of making "i" a real number...

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if (i >= 30)
{
    loadVars("connect.dat","player");
    i=0;
}
i += 30 / real_fps;

That way it's updating real time with the framerate, and will more accurately stick to one second intervals.

[jianglong0156]

Thank you for the help

[Hblade]

I didnt know there was a "sleep()" function O.o

[Game A Gogo]

I guess I'll clarify, the sleep command existed since the command prompt terminals. (since programming pretty much) It is used to idle the system from any process for an amount of time, back in the days, this was a very useful functions. But now it is mostly obsolete because it halts processing, thus why it's not in GE.

my information may be incorrect, but this is what I know of this o|