Re: AW: Network game

[Dave Fancella <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 2:47 am, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> On Monday 18 December 2006 02:07, Silvio Iaccarino wrote:
> > >> Problem is, we're still not using threads
> > >
> > >Would be possible even without threads. We could for example have a
> >
> > timer which checks for data on the network connection in a regular base.
> >
> > Even timers are very platform specific. :-(
>
> How about using the timer only on platforms which support them? It seems to
> me that this is something which should be easy to turn on or off with
> #ifdefs.

Timer doesn't need millisecond resolution...  (yeah, I know, that doesn't 
solve the timer problem, it just changes it to a series of #ifdefs looking 
for the platform's function for getting a system time)

Dave