Update Application?

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BLaBZ

(Posted 2010) [#1]

I have a really long Repeat loop and windows occasionally reads the program as "unresponsive"

Is there some sort of function I could put in the loop that basically says "hey! Im still alive!"

ima747

(Posted 2010) [#2]

while(PollEvent())
Wend

works for me to let the application process events (such as window going to the front or back, etc.) which if the OS pokes it it will have a chance to say it's awake during that time. It will clear the event loop, but chances are you don't want any events to be processed anyway if you've got a long pause like that...

Oddball

(Posted 2010) [#3]

Wouldn't a PollSystem() call do the same job as you're empty PollEvent() loop? Except of course with the added bonus of not emptying the event queue.

Czar Flavius

(Posted 2010) [#4]

How many milliseconds does the loop take to complete?

Put Delay 1 in your main game loop, this gives control back to the system momentarily.