On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 01:26:46PM +0200, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said: > > > The fptimer unit implements a timer with a thread, but this forces the > > > use of threads on your application which is not always desirable. > > > > Should be doable, as well. AFAIK, mse (for Linux) uses signals on that > > behalf. We might want to steal some ideas there. > > While there is sigalarm, but can you have multiple independent timers in an > application that way?
I think Martin used setitimer and handles multiple timers by calculating which one expires first, and subtracting that amount from the other timers, etc. Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
