RE: [Dev-C++] Clocking a second

[Louis B. <bar...@ho...>]

Thanks, I'll be back working on that project tonight.

Thanks again.


>From: "Ramana Kumar" <ra...@my...>
>Reply-To: dev...@li...
>To: <dev...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] Clocking a second
>Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:04:23 +1100
>
>Backspace should work. If you don't know it is \b.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dev...@li...
>[mailto:dev...@li...]On Behalf Of Louis Barba
>Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2001 7:18 PM
>To: dev...@li...
>Subject: [Dev-C++] Clocking a second
>
>I'm another one of those guys leaving harvesting and trying out 
>programming.
>In this program I must display the time, secs, mins, and hours. I'm still
>working on it, I was wondering if there is a better  way to make it wait a
>minute than doing a while loop. Also, I don't want the thing scrolling down
>the screen, it seems like it should not move, I have'nt wrote that part, 
>but
>I will tonight. I would think that you don't do carriage return line feed,
>and use a backspace character ?
>
>Here's my member function prototype in the class Time
>
>   // Wait a second
>    void wait_a_second();
>
>Here's my "While Loop" definition in the Function File
>
>// Wait one second, set for Intel Celeron Processor 366MHZ
>void Time::wait_a_second()
>{
>           int count_down = 51000000;  //iterations for 366 celeron 
>pocessor
>//Wait for second to lapse
>           while(count_down > 0)       //simple repetitive instruction
>           {
>                   count_down += -1;       //decrement value in variable
>           }
>}
>
>Again, I will be working on the stationary display tonight.
>
>thanks for any ideas
>
>Louis
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