Quoting Niklas Angare <li51ckf02@sneakemail.com>:
"Andreas Wehrmann" wrote:
On 05/26/2011 09:06 AM, asif saeed wrote:
Can I use Boost Timer or Boost DateTime to trigger callbacks? I just want to be able to have the timer/date-time class trigger my handler functions after every 10 seconds for example or trigger a callback handling function after 25 seconds and die.
you might want to take a look at the ASIO reference. There you'll find the deadline_timer with which you can do exactly what you want.
deadline_timer from Asio is not a good choice for these scenarios since in won't work properly if the system time changes. See http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3504 (but beware of bad code in the attachments).
Since the next version of Boost will contain boost::chrono::steady_clock, I'm hopeful that Asio will get a better timer.
Alright, I take it back then. I wasn't aware of the fact that boost::asio::deadline_timer are susceptible to time changes. Regards, Andreas ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.