[SDL] SDL_WaitEvent() with expiration

[Paul Braman]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

> There isn't yet.  Would it be helpful?  It would essentially be your 
> sample implementation.

In Bill Kendrick's tutorial he advocates something like...

	while (!done)
		start_cycle = SDL_GetTicks()
		poll_events
		handle_events
		if ((SDL_GetTicks() - start_cycle) < animation_interval)
			SDL_Delay(several_milliseconds)

...so that, if you need to at least do animation every 50 milliseconds it
will be in a delay until the next animation cycle if nothing major has
happened in the program.

I was thinking it would be more useful to be waiting for events during
this period to increase interactivity in the program.


Paul Braman
aeon at tampabay.rr.com