//  Sleepings.kt  (c) Kari Laitinen

//  http://www.naturalprogramming.com

//  2023-01-12  File created.

//  Testing the Thread.sleep() method.

fun main()
{
   print( "\n  Let's first wait 5 seconds ... \n" )

   try
   {
      Thread.sleep( 5000 )   //  5 s  =  5000 milliseconds
   }
   catch ( caught_exception : InterruptedException )
   {
   }

   print( "\n  Counting down ... \n\n" )

   var shrinking_number = 10
   
   while ( shrinking_number > 0 )
   {
      try
      {
         Thread.sleep( 1000 ) ;  // 1 second pause.
      }
      catch ( caught_exception : InterruptedException )
      {
      }

      print( "    "  +  shrinking_number  +  "\u0007" )
      
      shrinking_number --
   }

   print( "\n\n" )
}