How do you tell a Ruby program to wait an arbitrary amount of time before moving on to the next line of code? 7 Answers 7 Like this: sleep(num_secs) The num_secs value can be an integer or float. Also, if you’re writing this within a Rails app, or have included the ActiveSupport library in your … Read more
I am trying to do something in Java and I need something to wait / delay for an amount of seconds in a while loop. while (true) { if (i == 3) { i = 0; } ceva[i].setSelected(true); // I need to wait here ceva[i].setSelected(false); // I need to wait here i++; } I want … Read more
How do I get my Python program to sleep for 50 milliseconds? 6 s 6
I know the POSIX sleep(x) function makes the program sleep for x seconds. Is there a function to make the program sleep for x milliseconds in C++? 18 s 18 In C++11, you can do this with standard library facilities: #include <chrono> #include <thread> std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(x)); Clear and readable, no more need to guess at what … Read more
This question already has answers here: How do I get my program to sleep for 50 milliseconds? (6 answers) Closed 2 years ago. I would like to know how to put a time delay in a Python script. 13 s 13 import time time.sleep(5) # Delays for 5 seconds. You can also use a float … Read more
What is the difference between a wait() and sleep() in Threads? Is my understanding that a wait()-ing Thread is still in running mode and uses CPU cycles but a sleep()-ing does not consume any CPU cycles correct? Why do we have both wait() and sleep(): how does their implementation vary at a lower level? 3 … Read more
Is there a better way to engineer a sleep in JavaScript than the following pausecomp function (taken from here)? function pausecomp(millis) { var date = new Date(); var curDate = null; do { curDate = new Date(); } while(curDate-date < millis); } This is not a duplicate of Sleep in JavaScript – delay between actions; … Read more
This question already has answers here: How do I get my program to sleep for 50 milliseconds? (6 answers) Closed 2 years ago. I would like to know how to put a time delay in a Python script. 1 13
