Daemon for Run BASIC

[wurlde]

I know it's a little offtopic, but I'm testing some options with RB

I usually use Borland C/C++ for this kind of things, but this time I downloaded Just BASIC for making a simple daemon, and I haven't found a "sleep" or a "delay" command... also "RUN" executes programs asynchronously, so a "RUN sleep" won't work either...

So, the question is... is there a way to stop a program by a certain amount of time?

a "while" can do the trick, but only if you're not going to use it for a long amount of time, you can fry an egg with the micro, 'cause it's always at 100%

ideas are welcome

thanks in advance

[mackrackit]

Not sure if this will help but it may give you an idea.

This is for LB, do not know if it will work in JB
This program runs for a bit and then will close.

[setup.main.Window]

'-----Begin code for #main

nomainwin
WindowWidth = 150
WindowHeight = 150
UpperLeftX=int((DisplayWidth-WindowWidth)/2)
UpperLeftY=int((DisplayHeight-WindowHeight)/2)

'-----Begin GUI objects code

textbox #main.textbox1, 25, 62, 50, 25
'-----End GUI objects code
open "untitled" for window as #main
print #main, "font ms_sans_serif 10"
print #main, "trapclose [quit]"

[loop]

for x = 1 to 100
     if x = 50 then exit for
gosub [display]
  calldll #kernel32,"Sleep",50 as ulong,r as void
  next x
  goto [quit]
scan
wait

[display]
print #main.textbox1,x
return

[quit] 'End the program
close #main
end

[wurlde]

thanks for the answer, but calldll is not available with JB

but I've seen a "timer", I think I missed it yesterday because it was too late for me... :S

with this, I'm done