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The new, cleaner, version of the atomic operations. The dummy code is what you should start working with to port atomic ops. The linux code appears to be complete and *should* be the base of all Unix and GCC based versions. The macosx and win32 versions are currently just copies of the dummy code. I will begin working on the windows version as soon as this check in is done. I need someone to work on the Mac OS X version. I'm afraid that this check in will break QNX (Sorry!)
author Bob Pendleton <bob@pendleton.com>
date Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:35:12 +0000
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>SDL_AddTimer</H1
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>SDL_AddTimer&nbsp;--&nbsp;Add a timer which will call a callback after the specified number of milliseconds has
elapsed.</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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><CODE
><CODE
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>SDL_TimerID <B
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>SDL_AddTimer</B
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>(Uint32 interval, SDL_NewTimerCallback callback, void *param);</CODE
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>/* type definition for the "new" timer callback function */
typedef Uint32 (*SDL_NewTimerCallback)(Uint32 interval, void *param);</PRE
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>Adds a callback function to be run after the specified number of
milliseconds has elapsed. The callback function is passed the current
timer interval and the user supplied parameter from the
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_AddTimer</TT
> call and returns the next timer
interval. If the returned value from the callback is the same as the one
passed in, the periodic alarm continues, otherwise a new alarm is
scheduled.</P
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>To cancel a currently running timer call
<A
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>SDL_RemoveTimer</A
> with the
timer ID returned from
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_AddTimer</TT
>.</P
><P
>The timer callback function may run in a different thread than your
main program, and so shouldn't call any functions from within itself.
You may always call <A
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>SDL_PushEvent</A
>, however.</P
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>The granularity of the timer is platform-dependent, but you should count
on it being at least 10 ms as this is the most common number.
This means that if
you request a 16 ms timer, your callback will run approximately 20 ms
later on an unloaded system.  If you wanted to set a flag signaling
a frame update at 30 frames per second (every 33 ms), you might set a
timer for 30 ms (see example below).

If you use this function, you need to pass <TT
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>SDL_INIT_TIMER</TT
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>Return Value</H2
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>Returns an ID value for the added timer or
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>my_timer_id = SDL_AddTimer((33/10)*10, my_callbackfunc, my_callback_param);</PRE
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