Making code output slower

[BlekksPoncho]

Hi,

I am making a little text-based game and want to make each line output slower than instantly, as to cause suspense or whatever, for when you are attacking the enemy waiting to see how much HP they havetaken off etc.

Is there a way?

Thanks.

[Sauce]

use a timer.

lol i know that is a bit vague but the idea of programming is to generally learn things for yourself, you wont get anywhere if everyone tells you how to do it.

I only just woke up too

[Forceflow]

sleep(milliseconds);
It's dirty, but it will do the trick.

[zombie@computer]

once you get to GUI's you can use a timer event, but that wont work much better than sleep() on console proggies, since you still have to keep the thread running.

[BlekksPoncho]

Kk thanks everyone. I know Sauce I should learn myself so thanks for not spelling it out, but I was looking for a timer function but couldn't find it for without the windows api.

So thanks forceflow and zombie@computer for telling me about the sleep function.

[Sauce]

lol i didnt realise he was making a console app