TIMER Delays

[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?

[{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!

[Mitth'raw'nuruodo]

Thanks Nate, I thought TIMER was an integer because it returns the seconds from midnight....heh...But thanks!

[{Nathan}]

It might be, but it still works. Actually... I think it is!

[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.

[Z!re]

Timer is a SINGLE floating point numerical value.

Just like it says in the QB help, if you look under TIMER

[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.

[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..

[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?

[Rattrapmax6]

QB Help has 3 Layers,. :Quick Screen: :Discrition: :Example:

Z!re might be on a diff page about TIMER

[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.