Re: [Boost-users] How to create a timer in boost::thread

On 16/06/07, Meryl Silverburgh wrote:

Can you please tell me if i can do this with boost::thread library? 1. create a timer (say 5 seconds) which execute a function in a different thread when it expires. 2. the creator can cancel the timer before it expires.

It's not premade, but you could do it easily enough. Start a thread which will wait (until an xtime), then call a function (stored in a boost::function perhaps), so long as a flag isn't set (you could make that in a shared_ptr<bool> to avoid lifetime worries). Starting a thread for each one probably wouldn't be too scalable, but it should work. ~ Scott