Re: [AD] Undocumented number of timer functions

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 20:12 +1000, Peter Wang wrote:

> Timer drivers can implement their own install_int, etc. methods but I 
> don't think any of them do.  In that case they fall back on the default 
> implementation in timer.c, which can only hold 16 timers (see MAX_TIMERS 
> in aintern.h).  Moreover, Allegro can use some of these itself (a quick 
> look: mouse cursor drawing, keyboard rate handling, MIDI playing, the 
> digital sound sweep effect and FLIC playing can all use timer interrupts).
> 

Probably the above should be added to the docs, so users know they
should use timer callbacks sparingly.

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Elias Pschernig