Question

This is really annoying me as I have done it before, about a year ago and I cannot for the life of me remember what library it was.

Basically, the problem is that I want to be able to call a method a certain number of times or for a certain period of time at a specified interval.

One example would be I would like to call a method “x” starting from now, 10 times, once every 0.5 seconds. Alternatively, call method “x” starting from now, 10 times, until 5 seconds have passed.

Now I thought I used a boost library for this functionality but I can’t seem to find it now and feeling a bit annoyed. Unfortunately I can’t look at the code again as I’m not in possession of it any more.

Alternatively, I could have dreamt this all up and it could have been proprietary code. Assuming there is nothing out there that does what I would like, what is currently the best way of producing this behaviour? It would need to be high-resolution, up to a millisecond.

It doesn’t matter if it blocks the thread that it is executed from or not.

Thanks!

Answer 1

A combination of boost::this_thread::sleep and time duration found in boost::datetime?