Function

Sleep

Description

Pauses execution of the current thread for a specified interval. Interval passed is in milliseconds. In-proc COM servers, this function should be used instead of UI functions like WAIT or INKEY().

A thread can also relinquish the remainder of its time slice by calling this function with a sleep time of zero milliseconds.

Host file

Kernel32.dll

Category

Base services

Declare in Visual FoxPro

DECLARE Sleep IN Win32API INTEGER nMilliseconds


Declare in Visual C++

VOID Sleep(
DWORD dwMilliseconds // sleep time
);



Example in Visual FoxPro

* Pause for 5 seconds

nSleepSeconds = 5
nMilliseconds = nSleepSeconds * 1000
=Sleep(nMilliSeconds)