Blink without the pause command

[DanPBP]

Hi All,

I want to blink a LED without the pause command because I want to do other things and not stop the entire loop every time the LED blinks.

For example, with the pause command the code looks like this:

main:
high portb.0
pause 500
low portb.0
pause 500
goto main

Without the pause command the code could look something like this:

count_on var byte
count_off var byte
pause_led var byte

count_on = 0
count_off = 0
pause_led = 5000

main:
if count_on = 0 then
high portb.0
endif

if count_on != pause_led
count_on = count_on + 1
endif

if count_on = pause_led then
low portb.0

count_off = count_off + 1

if count_off = pause_led then
count_on = 0
count_off = 0
endif

endif

goto main:

My question is, if I want to leave the LED turned on for 1 second, how many "if" cycles should I do?

Thanks!

Daniel.