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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

Tcl_Sleep (3tcl)

Name

Tcl_Sleep - delay execution for a given number of milliseconds

Synopsis

#include <tcl.h>

Tcl_Sleep(ms)

Description

Tcl_Sleep(3tcl)             Tcl Library Procedures             Tcl_Sleep(3tcl)



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NAME
       Tcl_Sleep - delay execution for a given number of milliseconds

SYNOPSIS
       #include <tcl.h>

       Tcl_Sleep(ms)

ARGUMENTS
       int ms (in)          Number of milliseconds to sleep.
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DESCRIPTION
       This procedure delays the calling process by the number of milliseconds
       given by the ms parameter and returns after that time has elapsed.   It
       is typically used for things like flashing a button, where the delay is
       short and the application need not do anything  while  it  waits.   For
       longer  delays  where  the application needs to respond to other events
       during the delay, the procedure Tcl_CreateTimerHandler should  be  used
       instead of Tcl_Sleep.

KEYWORDS
       sleep, time, wait



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | runtime/tcl-8    |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source was downloaded from  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl-
       core8.6.7-src.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.tcl.tk/.



Tcl                                   7.5                      Tcl_Sleep(3tcl)