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If we're looking at the /dev/input event devices, and we found
at least one, then we don't want to look at the input joystick
devices, since they're built on top of devices that we've already
seen, so we're done.
| author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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| date | Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:34:50 +0000 |
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| 4 >Time</TITLE | |
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7 CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.64 |
| 0 | 8 "><LINK |
| 9 REL="HOME" | |
| 10 TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" | |
| 11 HREF="index.html"><LINK | |
| 12 REL="UP" | |
| 13 TITLE="SDL Reference" | |
| 14 HREF="reference.html"><LINK | |
| 15 REL="PREVIOUS" | |
| 16 TITLE="SDL_CondWaitTimeout" | |
| 17 HREF="sdlcondwaittimeout.html"><LINK | |
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| 19 TITLE="SDL_GetTicks" | |
| 20 HREF="sdlgetticks.html"><META | |
| 21 NAME="KEYWORD" | |
| 22 CONTENT="time"><META | |
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| 26 CLASS="CHAPTER" | |
| 27 BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" | |
| 28 TEXT="#000000" | |
| 29 LINK="#0000ee" | |
| 30 VLINK="#551a8b" | |
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| 32 ><DIV | |
| 33 CLASS="NAVHEADER" | |
| 34 ><TABLE | |
| 35 WIDTH="100%" | |
| 36 BORDER="0" | |
| 37 CELLPADDING="0" | |
| 38 CELLSPACING="0" | |
| 39 ><TR | |
| 40 ><TH | |
| 41 COLSPAN="3" | |
| 42 ALIGN="center" | |
| 43 >SDL Library Documentation</TH | |
| 44 ></TR | |
| 45 ><TR | |
| 46 ><TD | |
| 47 WIDTH="10%" | |
| 48 ALIGN="left" | |
| 49 VALIGN="bottom" | |
| 50 ><A | |
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| 52 >Prev</A | |
| 53 ></TD | |
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| 55 WIDTH="80%" | |
| 56 ALIGN="center" | |
| 57 VALIGN="bottom" | |
| 58 ></TD | |
| 59 ><TD | |
| 60 WIDTH="10%" | |
| 61 ALIGN="right" | |
| 62 VALIGN="bottom" | |
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| 64 HREF="sdlgetticks.html" | |
| 65 >Next</A | |
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| 70 ALIGN="LEFT" | |
| 71 WIDTH="100%"></DIV | |
| 72 ><DIV | |
| 73 CLASS="CHAPTER" | |
| 74 ><H1 | |
| 75 ><A | |
| 76 NAME="TIME" | |
| 77 >Chapter 13. Time</A | |
| 78 ></H1 | |
| 79 ><DIV | |
| 80 CLASS="TOC" | |
| 81 ><DL | |
| 82 ><DT | |
| 83 ><B | |
| 84 >Table of Contents</B | |
| 85 ></DT | |
| 86 ><DT | |
| 87 ><A | |
| 88 HREF="sdlgetticks.html" | |
| 89 >SDL_GetTicks</A | |
| 90 > — Get the number of milliseconds since the SDL library initialization.</DT | |
| 91 ><DT | |
| 92 ><A | |
| 93 HREF="sdldelay.html" | |
| 94 >SDL_Delay</A | |
| 95 > — Wait a specified number of milliseconds before returning.</DT | |
| 96 ><DT | |
| 97 ><A | |
| 98 HREF="sdladdtimer.html" | |
| 99 >SDL_AddTimer</A | |
| 100 > — Add a timer which will call a callback after the specified number of milliseconds has | |
| 101 elapsed.</DT | |
| 102 ><DT | |
| 103 ><A | |
| 104 HREF="sdlremovetimer.html" | |
| 105 >SDL_RemoveTimer</A | |
| 106 > — Remove a timer which was added with | |
| 107 <A | |
| 108 HREF="sdladdtimer.html" | |
| 109 >SDL_AddTimer</A | |
| 110 >.</DT | |
| 111 ><DT | |
| 112 ><A | |
| 113 HREF="sdlsettimer.html" | |
| 114 >SDL_SetTimer</A | |
| 115 > — Set a callback to run after the specified number of milliseconds has | |
| 116 elapsed.</DT | |
| 117 ></DL | |
| 118 ></DIV | |
| 119 ><P | |
| 120 >SDL provides several cross-platform functions for dealing with time. | |
| 121 It provides a way to get the current time, a way to wait a little while, | |
| 122 and a simple timer mechanism. These functions give you two ways of moving an | |
| 123 object every x milliseconds: | |
| 124 | |
| 125 <P | |
| 126 ></P | |
| 127 ><UL | |
| 128 ><LI | |
| 129 ><P | |
| 130 >Use a timer callback function. This may have the bad effect that it runs in a seperate thread or uses alarm signals, but it's easier to implement.</P | |
| 131 ></LI | |
| 132 ><LI | |
| 133 ><P | |
| 134 >Or you can get the number of milliseconds passed, and move the object if, for example, 30 ms passed.</P | |
| 135 ></LI | |
| 136 ></UL | |
| 137 > </P | |
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| 152 VALIGN="top" | |
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| 160 VALIGN="top" | |
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| 163 >Home</A | |
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