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TIMER Delays
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:54 am
by Mitth'raw'nuruodo
Ok, here's what I know:
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Seconds = 1
timeI = TIMER
DO : LOOP UNTIL timeI + Seconds <= TIMER
That code will delay for 1 second.
Now here's my question:
How do you make it delay for <1 second? If you make Seconds <1 then won't it still delay for 1 second?
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:06 am
by {Nathan}
Ohh! Thats sooo easy! Just make you vars !s (the defualt) and change them to decimals
here is a tutor:
http://petesqbsite.com/sections/tutoria ... e_lift.txt
Pete, you da man!
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:27 pm
by Mitth'raw'nuruodo
Thanks Nate, I thought TIMER was an integer because it returns the seconds from midnight....heh...But thanks!
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:19 am
by {Nathan}
It might be, but it still works. Actually... I think it is!
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:00 am
by Mitth'raw'nuruodo
No, if it was then it wouldn't work...
Use this code to find out:
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DO
PRINT TIMER
LOOP WHILE INP(96) <> 129 'if the ESC key has gone up then exit do
As you see TIMER has two decimal places with it. So TIMER is not an integer.
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:48 am
by Z!re
Timer is a SINGLE floating point numerical value.
Just like it says in the QB help, if you look under TIMER
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:26 pm
by Mitth'raw'nuruodo
No it doesn't.
I looked before I posted this, and I double checked after you posted that and it says nowhere in the QB help that TIMER is a floating point single precision type variable.
Hence this topic.
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:27 pm
by Rattrapmax6
Um, Mitth, arn't "31.123" what you call a floating point.. so that makes TIMER a floating point.. ^^ Or thats what TIMER returns for me..
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:50 pm
by Mitth'raw'nuruodo
I know its floating point.....and your right....so uh?
What's that about?
I said It doesn't because QB help says nothing about floating point, I assumed that since it said # of seconds from midnight, it ment an integer...
But then I checked it out and its not so your right it is a floating point but Z!re said that QB help said it was and I said it doesn't cause it doesn't, clear now, eh?
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:50 pm
by Rattrapmax6
QB Help has 3 Layers,. :Quick Screen: :Discrition: :Example:
Z!re might be on a diff page about TIMER
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:52 pm
by Mitth'raw'nuruodo
No.
QuickScreen: Details: Example: Contents: Index
I looked at all three of them and it never says TIMER is a SINGLE precision floating-point decimal type variable. I does however say it indirectly when in the example it shows Start! = TIMER.
Now start! is a single precision. So therefore TIMER is a single precision indirectly. But it never says it directly.