Re: lingo-l sleep() not working (wrong timing)

2005-02-26 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi arri, it's a bit too complicate to descibe in details, but I used sleep(200) (which was supposed to be very short, just 200 ms) to fix some flickering problems when playing DVD media. no unsleep was needed for this. valentin arri wrote: just curious; what would you need sleep for, other

lingo-l sleep() not working (wrong timing)

2005-02-24 Thread Valentin Schmidt
hi list, I have an apple g4 (os x 10.3.3) where director's sleep() function (UiHelper-xtra) doesn't work as it should. a simple sleep(1000) in the message window needs about 15 seconds to return, and the ratio consistently seems to be about 15:1 (sleep(200)-about 3 sec). apart from this

Re: lingo-l sleep() not working (wrong timing)

2005-02-24 Thread roymeo
sleep has always been in ticks on the mac and in milliseconds on the PC. So that should be about 16.667 seconds. roymeo At 11:01 AM 2/24/2005, you wrote: hi list, I have an apple g4 (os x 10.3.3) where director's sleep() function (UiHelper-xtra) doesn't work as it should. a simple

Re: lingo-l sleep() not working (wrong timing)

2005-02-24 Thread Valentin Schmidt
thanks colin and roy, I must have missed this. good to know! valentin Colin Holgate wrote: At 5:01 PM +0100 2/24/05, Valentin Schmidt wrote: a simple sleep(1000) in the message window needs about 15 seconds to return, and the ratio consistently seems to be about 15:1 (sleep(200)-about 3

Re: lingo-l sleep() not working (wrong timing)

2005-02-24 Thread arri
just curious; what would you need sleep for, other than making director less cpu-consuming? and therefore; why would you want to know this exact timing? because once sleeping, you can't 'unsleep' director, isn;t it? \rri On 24 feb 2005, at 18:25, Valentin Schmidt wrote: thanks colin and roy, I

Re: lingo-l sleep() not working (wrong timing)

2005-02-24 Thread Colin Holgate
At 8:37 PM +0100 2/24/05, arri wrote: what would you need sleep for, other than making director less cpu-consuming? and therefore; why would you want to know this exact timing? because once sleeping, you can't 'unsleep' director, isn;t it? You don't put Director to sleep and then wake it up, you