Howto do a slow for loop

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1

Hello,

if I do a for-loop like

def draw(screen, etc) :
    for X in range (0,100) :
         #do something here with X

then X is counted up each 30ms (=each frame that is drawn). Now I’d like to do a for-loop where the incrementation is done at a defined period, let’s say each second one step up. Is there any possibility?

2

Replying myself:

I found that I can do something like

def draw(screen, etc) :
    for XX in range (0,100 * 10) : 
         X = int(XX / 10) 
         #do something here with X

Which makes the loop ten times slower.
But I still hope for a different solution with something like “sleep”.

3

You cannot sleep as the render function needs to complete for every frame.
What you can do instread is count frames which you know happen at 30fps, so do a bit of your ‘work’ every N frames.

( there are other ways but this is the easiest solution)

4

Yepp, counting frames should be an easy thing. Thanks for the hint!

And thinking of frames: Another possibility might be relating it to MIDI clock. Then my rain would be in timing with the music too.

5

Yeah syncing with midi clock is easy (and similar)
You just do you work whenever you get N clock ticks, you don’t even need to count frames - unless you want it to also work when no clock is received