How do you add a timed delay to a C++ program?

Question

I am trying to add a timed delay in a C++ program, and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what I can try or information I can look at?

I wish I had more

Answer 1

In Win32:

#include
Sleep(milliseconds);

In Unix:

#include
unsigned int microsecond = 1000000;
usleep(3 * microsecond);//sleeps for 3 second

sleep() only takes a number of seconds which is often too long.