delay

Waits for the specified number of seconds.

Description

Simple code that waits for the specified number of seconds. To use it, call "myWait(DeltaT)" with DeltaT in [s]. It does so using MATLAB timers, in this way it doesn't take computer resources (CPU), allowing other programs to run simultaneously.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.5 (R13)

[Juan Carlos Fuentes Michel]

It works, but only on the R13.

Is there someone who's got something for the R12 version?

[Jakob Buron]

It works, but the builtin 'pause(n)' function does the same.

[Aman Siddiqi]

Works well. Thanks

[John D'Errico]

How is this any improvement over pause(T)? Even better, pause works in any version of matlab, new or old.

[Nathan McDannold]

Works great! It's nice to see a pause function that doesn't use 100% of my CPU!

[Ming Liu]

It stops all the m files.

[Peter Mao]

I find it useful mainly because I can never remember the name of the function "PAUSE" and I'm always trying "wait," "delay," and "sleep."

actually, I've found that I come back here whenever I forget about "pause."

[Kiran Bhagat]

very useful..thanks a lot!

[Mukund Kumar]

Nice one. Though it generates this unobtrusive error:

??? Error while evaluating TimerFcn for timer 'timer-5647'

Undefined command/function 'myWait'.

[abhi k]

this was very much required.
a very very thank you.

[Balázs Vágány]

:-) You helped me a lot!
THX!

[Sergey B]

why not to use simple pause(t) ?

[Michael Purdy]

Can it wait for a shorter time that pause? In other words, pause can only wait a minumum of 0.01s. Can this one wait for a shorter time?

[Sepideh]

great job , thanks