> > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Peter Wang <
novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Question: should al_wait_for_event_timed() take an absolute timeout
> > > specification, or should we provide both? Relative timeouts are
> > > convenient for one off calls, but absolute timeouts would be much better
> > > when waiting for multiple events in a loop, e.g.
> >
> > Could be convenient, anyway the relative-timeout is the more
> > common option in all APIs. I think that we should provide both
> > options. The absolute-timeout routine could be called
> > al_wait_for_event_until() or something.
> >
> I agree there's no compelling reason either way but I think absolute
> would make more sense, for example you could have this for your fixed
> frame-rate loop:
> float abst = al_current_time();
> while (true) {
> abst += 1 / frame_rate;
>
> while (al_wait_for_event_timed(queue, &ev, abst)) {
> handle ev
> }
> /* time's up */
> update_logic();
> draw();
> }