What's up with PtcCrt's delay procedure?
lazarus / 21-General

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TBMan · 2025-02-02 18:48

It just acts wonky at times. I've resorted to using a longint as a
timer for certain things.

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TRon · 2025-02-03 20:02

tbh I never use delay so can't say I am familiar with the issue. I use
sleep and timers when working with PTC.

Could you share a reproducible example ?

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Thaddy · 2025-02-04 07:58

The description you gave is not very helpful.
I am missing a compilable example, platform, bitness.
ptc has many lowlevel implementations and these differ per platform,
e.g. on Win and Lin the behavior is different in some cases.

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Thaddy · 2025-02-04 08:31

Also note that on most platforms delays should not be used as
precision timers: they just guarantee a minimum delay() but otherwise
have no priority.
You need OS timers for that.

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TBMan · 2025-02-09 21:07

It just seems to be inconsistent in its use. Maybe it's my system.
Sometimes
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takes forever and it shouldn't. It's probably my usage of it (in loops
at times). Thanks for the responses.