/lib/pods/SDL/Time.pod
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- =pod
- =head1 NAME
- SDL::Time - An SDL Perl extension for managing timers
- =head1 CATEGORY
- Core
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
- use warnings;
- use strict;
-
- use threads;
- use threads::shared;
- use SDL::Time;
- package foo;
- use SDL ':all';
- SDL::init(SDL_INIT_TIMER);
- my $tick :shared = 0;
- sub ticker { $tick++; warn $tick; return 100; }
- package main;
- my $id = SDL::Time::add_timer(100, 'foo::ticker');
- sleep(2);
- SDL::Time::remove_timer($id);
- =head1 METHODS
- =head2 add_timer
- my $id = SDL::Timer::add_timer( $ms_interval, $callback );
- This runs in a separate thread and a cloned Perl thread.
- C<threads> and C<threads::shared> must be used to share any variables the timer uses.
- The C<$callback> function, specified with a string of the function's name, will be called after the milliseconds of C<$interval> have elapsed.
- The actual delay may be longer than specified depending on the underlying OS.
- The callback function is passed the current timer interval as well as the C<$interval> parameter and should return the next timer interval.
- If the return value from the callback is 0, the timer is cancelled; otherwise, the timer will continue to run.
- The timer callback function may run in a different thread to your main program, so it shouldn't call any functions from within itself.
- You may call SDL::push_event, however.
- C<SDL::Time::add_timer> returns the identifier value of the generated timer or undef on error.
- B<Note:> You must initialize (C<SDL::init>) the timer subsystem to use this function.
- =head2 remove_timer
- SDL::Timer::remove_timer( $id );
- The other way to cancel a timer is to use C<SDL::Time::remove_timer> on the C<$id> of a timer.
- This ID is the return value of the C<SDL::Time::add_timer> function.
- C<SDL::Time::remove_timer> returns C<0> on success or C<-1> on error.
- =head1 AUTHORS
- See L<SDL/AUTHORS>.
- =cut