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Option to fix bug #851
For some people setting the period size works better (and is what SDL 1.2.13 did), but for most people it's the same or worse. You can use an environment variable to pick which one you want.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:55:17 +0000 |
parents | 355632dca928 |
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<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SDL_Delay</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Time" HREF="time.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SDL_GetTicks" HREF="sdlgetticks.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SDL_AddTimer" HREF="sdladdtimer.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >SDL Library Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdlgetticks.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sdladdtimer.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SDLDELAY" ></A >SDL_Delay</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN8455" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >SDL_Delay -- Wait a specified number of milliseconds before returning.</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN8458" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN8459" ></A ><P ></P ><PRE CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSISINFO" >#include "SDL.h"</PRE ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >void <B CLASS="FSFUNC" >SDL_Delay</B ></CODE >(Uint32 ms);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN8465" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >Wait a specified number of milliseconds before returning. <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_Delay</TT > will wait at <SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >least</I ></SPAN > the specified time, but possible longer due to OS scheduling.</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="NOTE" ><P ><B >Note: </B >Count on a delay granularity of <SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >at least</I ></SPAN > 10 ms. Some platforms have shorter clock ticks but this is the most common.</P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN8473" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><P ><A HREF="sdladdtimer.html" ><TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >SDL_AddTimer</TT ></A ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdlgetticks.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sdladdtimer.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SDL_GetTicks</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="time.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SDL_AddTimer</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >