sleep() not functioning properly...

dood · **Joined:** Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4

What is the correct usage for sleep?

If I do something like this:

Code:

global main= function()
{
    while(true)
    {
        print("something");
        sleep(2.0);
        print("something else");

        yield();
    }
};

main();

I would expect that "something" would print, then the script would wait for 2 seconds, then "something else" would print, and this would repeat indefinitely. I'm not seeing this. Am I mistaken that this is what should happen based on this code above?

Greg · **Joined:** Mon Dec 15, 2003 1:38 pm **Posts:** 580

Welcome to the forum dood

The behavior you expect is pretty much what I expect also. After the first line of text, you will see two new lines of text appearing every 2 seconds. Please try running this program with GME. What is the result that you do see? If you are running from GM compiled within your own program, are you calling gmMachine::Execute() regularly with delta time, to pump the script threads?

dood · **Joined:** Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:52 pm **Posts:** 4

It works as expected when running through gme. I should mention that I'm running this on the xbox, and I have my own logging mechanism, so the only difference in script code is that the print statements are replaced with my own. I see that what is happening is that it is stalling on sleep.

I am calling gmMachine::Execute() every frame with the delta time. I will investigate more...

DrEvil-OB · **Joined:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:28 am **Posts:** 434

I assume you are seeing the first print but not the 2nd? If so it really points to the execute being called with the wrong params, unless there is just some pretty big bug with gm compiled on xbox

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