Help With Programming

[RussianVodka]

I was sitting in class being boared and whatching the broken clock, when I got the idea to make a timer program. So the other day I started making the \"engine\" if you will, and I came across this problem. Before I used the Sleep(###) comand (found in the windows.h library) to pause my programs. But while making this I\'ve realized that the command only stops the program externaly, while internaly it continues to run.

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//Timer

#include
#include


int main()
{
 int stoper = 0;
 int sec = -1;
   int min = 0;
    int hour = 0;

   while (stoper == 0)
 {

       sec = sec + 1;
     
        if (sec == 60)
      {
           min = min + 1;
          sec = 0;
        }
       else
        {}
     
        if (min == 60)
      {
           hour = hour + 1;
            min = 0;
        }
       else
        {}

      cout << hour << \" Hours;  \" << min << \" Minutes;  \" << sec << \" Seconds.\\n\";

       Sleep(1000);

    }

   return 0;


Anyways, instead of pausing the program for a second, it just does what looks like lowering the frame rate. What command can I use instead of Sleep(###)?

Note: This is only the counting part of the timer program... Once I get this thing figured out I\'m gona add external prompt commands that will let you choose weather to count up, count down,  and when to stop counting.

[RussianVodka]

Anyone?

[Clover]

I\'m not a C++ buff and I\'m sure there is a faster way, but could you grab the time and update it when the seconds goes up one.

while stopper == 0
   if time == (time + 1)

and so on.