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Thanks for that information. It fits well with my plan for this one  
project.

Regards,

Chuck

On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Mark Lively wrote:

> On Jun 3, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:
>
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> How many decimal places can DELAYA go to to achieve a fraction of a  
>> second?
>>
>> Can we go to milliseconds?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Chuck
>>
> On My Machine. the smallest delay seems to be .016 or about 1/60th  
> of a second.
>
> It takes smaller numbers and may discriminate between smaller  
> differences.  Delay 0 returns almost instantly.  ~10^-4 sec.  There  
> is a *LOT* of slop in delay at these scales.  I wouldn't trust it  
> finer than about a tenth of a second.
>
> If you need finer times Cocoa is not that hard to learn.
>
> -Mark
> Who is on his 3rd programming language of the day.
>

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