i think with todays systems speed a second is like an Eternity to the CPU ...

Could we have this changed ?

It's no problem for me but could be one for all who can't (or don't want to) use 3rd Party dll's . (or should i say Shawn Party dll's ? )

Hmm ... , or for compatibility reasons add a WAIT or DELAY function

regards

Jochen

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And a KBHIT() or INKEY() function would be nice too ...

-Shawn

Kix has some commands to parralel the kbhit() funcrtion

GET
Action: Accepts a single character from the keyboard and stores the character in a variable.

Syntax
GET $x

Remarks
The character is stored in the specified script variable. If a function key, such as F1, is pressed, GET returns 0, and @ERROR returns the key code of the function key.

GETS
Action
Reads a line of characters from the keyboard until the <ENTER> key is pressed, and stores the result in a variable.

Syntax
GETS $x

Thomas

but a kbhit() function won't, unlike get or gets, stop the Script Execution ...

sample of how to FlushKB with Shawns Kixlib32.dll :

code:

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$kixlib = createobject("kixlib32.library")
while $kixlib.kbhit
    get $k
loop

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You won't be able to do this with pure Kix !

Jochen

btw. : Welcome 'on board'

[This message has been edited by jpols (edited 26 June 2001).]

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Lonkero

The weardest there is!

One of the most useful reasons for milliseconds is for timing things. I wouldn't want to pause a script for 10ms, but I would like to know the milliseconds now, then after an operation.

Sort of like this:

$start=@milliseconds ;new imaginary KiX macro that returns the milliseconds part of the current time

; my command here

"My command took " @milliseconds-$start "ms" ?

So, rather than the milliseconds of the current time, I would like to have the CPU ticks. That is, the milliseconds since last power on.

cj

AND it could be useful for Animation purposes ... see this topic

Jochen

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and jpols is right in that way that I use sleep because of that - I don't want to hang the workstations OS because of harmless admin script is working in the background.

We agree with CJ. The macro @milliseconds would be nice.
Changes to the command SLEEP isn't so necessary to us.
We aren't using it for timing problems during the execution of
our scripts, but for showing the user some information for a
period of time. Mostly this period is 1 or 2 seconds long.
Greetings.

Ruud

Ruud has add @msecs to the new private release.
We will published new versions of kixref.exe and
kixstrip.exe to recognize this macro.
Greetings.

btw: thanks Ruud

Do you understand?

cj

hmmm... when now coming to think about it, I'm not sure anymore did I understand you:
I would more like to get macros like @ydayno.
I mean some macro that returns days since 1.1.2000
and minutes since 00:00
but since I got the change to do it with udf, I will get it faster by doing my own code.

BTW, I don't think the ticks are so usefull as macro.
couldn't it be better to have function to which you say:
$ = tick(1) ;starts
and
$ticks = tick(0) ;stops

and it returns cycles, msecs secs or whatever in the between?

And what about my delay() suggestion ???

I find this very useful !!

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thats a good point ... here's a sample of why I want to have it (I can't , therefore I have to use Shawn's kixlib32.dll) : Connect 4

Cj also has a similar case (his TetrisAdaption)

And it'll be also useful for 'cooling' down CPU Intensive loops .

Jochen

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that's a good comparison
Mine hurt for 3 days after writing the CPU routines in Connect 4.

J.

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Let me summarise then. I would like to see a new command and a new macro:

DELAY(iMS) - delay in milliseconds
@TICKS - number of system ticks since last poweron

I have (and I'm sure Jochen has) some/many scripts that are waiting for these functions.

What we have:

SLEEP(iS) - delay in seconds
@MSECS - number of milliseconds of current time.

We can use UDFs and WSH calls to get by in the meantime.

cj