A Delay function...

[CristoferMartins]

the darkpallys ' subdelay function is very slow,i make my bot ' core and it are geting the 100% of cpu,i see a problem...
i search on internet and found it,its is very fast,and my bot a low of my cpu...
Code

Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "Kernel32.dll" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
Private Declare Function timeGetTime Lib "WinMM.dll" () As Long

Public Sub Wait(ByVal inMilliseconds As Long)
    Dim SleepTime As Long, TimeNow As Long
    Dim SleepTo As Long, SleepEnd As Long

    Const MaxSleep As Long = 100

    TimeNow = timeGetTime()
    SleepTime = inMilliseconds \ 10
    If (SleepTime > MaxSleep) Then SleepTime = MaxSleep
    SleepTo = TimeNow + inMilliseconds

     Do
        DoEvents
        TimeNow = timeGetTime()
        SleepEnd = SleepTo - TimeNow
        If (SleepEnd <= SleepTime) Then Exit Do
        Call Sleep(SleepTime)
    Loop

    If (SleepEnd > 0) Then Call Sleep(SleepEnd)
End Sub

[Dark Pallys]

If you use the Sleep API it freezes the entire application. Using very small "Sleep's" wouldn't affect your program, however when you have multiple timers running calling the Sleep function, the effects would start appearing.

[CristoferMartins]

then,what is the best delay function?

[Dark Pallys]

I *think* that if you were to use multi threading you then could use the Sleep function as it would only put a certain thread to "sleep".. Hmm.. Honestly I don't have anything better than subDelay

[OsQu]

Why would you want to sleep something? :O

[Dark Pallys]

Why would you want to sleep something? :O

Add a delay after the bot uses a potion or something o.O

or to prevent lag-related problems

[CristoferMartins]

i just want a delay...

[OsQu]

In my experience all constant delays just make things worse. That was my biggest problem when developing a cavebot for TTB. Let's discuss about it as a good example:

At first I thought it was a good idea so I went further. How it worked was that I had four states: walking, attacking, corpse opening and looting.. Because those things need to be at sync (cause of lag), I added few delays here and there to keep it at sync. Sounds good at first sight. However, what really happened was that no matter how I messed around with delays I couldn't get it at sync because my approach was wrong. Well, what I should've done in my humble opinion afterwards:

I should've had event driven approach where the state was changed after certain action. For example with delay driven approach I had 500 ms pause after opening a corpse before I started looting. The correct approach should've to catch the packet from server which opens the backpack, and change the state there.

What I'm trying to say, with good logic and a bit of planning you don't need any delays since you can do things in different, better way.

Of course I'm always open for a conversation and I'd love to hear your experiences where delays were your golden saviour

[Cervej4]

to long delays
i guess that the best is to add one timer

[megano0body]

The best way is to use GetTickCount =p