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List:       gnuplot-info-beta
Subject:    Re: suggestion
From:       "Petr Mikulik" <mikulik () physics ! muni ! cz>
Date:       2000-03-16 8:04:17
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>> hello, the command pause could works with real numbers in order to
>> animate frames in intervals of 0.1 seconds, this is very important for
>> my purpose that is simulation in physics,
>In principle, it might do that, but there's an implementation problem: we
>would need a solution for pausing for less than one seconds that works
>reliably and portably on many platforms (all Unixes, DOS, Atari, Windows,
>OS/2, to name some), and such a beast has long since been known by the C
>gurus not to exist.
>OTOH, if you really consider this missing feature to be an outright bug,
>you've named yourself as the perfect volunteer to code it and contribute
>the changes, for the benefit of others... :-)

What about adding a function msleep(miliseconds) or usleep(microseconds)?
Linux has usleep(), OS/2 has msleep which is called _sleep2() in EMX. If
such sleep is not avail on a given platform, then use 
sleep(int(0.5+time)). 

Something with command.c: GP_SLEEP(sleep_time);   #defined in stdfn.h ...
Easy to do? 


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Petr Mikulik, mikulik@physics.muni.cz



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