event based timer

[Sean Kelly]

On Jul 19, 2011, at 3:19 AM, maarten van damme wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> for getting to know d a little bit I'm writing a simple pingpong game using gtk.
> for it to work I need to be able to do something every 0.1 seconds so I was wondering if there was some kind of timer in the phobos library.
> I've looked everywhere but couldn't find one. Is it missing and do i have to write my own or have I overlooked it?

void loop() {
    while( true ) {
        doWhatever();
        Thread.sleep(dur!"msecs"(100));
    }
}

spawn(&loop);


Or you could have the spawned thread send a message every 100 milliseconds, etc.