Maximum Delay Time

[quimax2k]

hello all,

i cant seem to find the answer for this though i am sure its something i am just over looking..  on the prop1 what is the max delay time you can set?

thanks
rob


EDIT: I changed the topic title to make it useful for searches.  JW

[JonnyMac]

The maximum delay for a single line of code is 65,535 milliseconds, or 65.535 seconds.  Again, that's one line of code; you call a subroutine set to a known delay time and then call that -- again, the maximum value (due to the size of a Word) would be 65,535 units.  For example:

Delay_Seconds:
  IF seconds = 0 THEN Delay_Secs_Exit
    PAUSE 1000
    seconds = seconds - 1
    GOTO Delay_Seconds

Delays_Secs_Exit:
  RETURN

To use this to cause a 15 second delay, you would do this:

  seconds = 15
  GOSUB Delay_Seconds


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