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I’m trying to build a feed reader in C++, so I need the program to check for new feeds intermittently. However, the user needs still to be able to interact with the program, so the suggestion that I seem to keep finding, to have the system wait, doesn’t work for me. Can anyone suggest a better solution, say a timer that runs in the background or something?
Thanks,
Charles
You can create a thread that sleeps for the specific time period. This is OS independent. Or, if you are programming in windows, you can set a timer to send a timeout event periodically. The use of timers depends on your deployment platform.