Creating a window application that will perform certain action after every 10 minutes

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I was wondering would I still need to use a basic game loop for this particular operation?

If your application has a UI then it is required, if it is a console application then you don't need a message loop. — Ismael, Mar 08 '10 at 16:32
please note that by "game loop" I assume you mean a loop that runs as often as possible or at the VSYNC rate of the display, not event driven — Ben Voigt, Mar 08 '10 at 20:26

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:28

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No, just use CreateWaitableTimer, SetWaitableTimer, and then use MsgWaitForMultipleObjects instead of GetMessage or PeekMessage in your event dispatch loop (typically in WinMain).

answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:28

Ben Voigt

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:28

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You could create a timer and perform that action on WM_TIMER message handling or on timer proc function you specify when creating the timer.

answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:28

Cătălin Pitiș

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:52

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You can implement timers more generally and portably by using the Boost Asio library.

Here's an example of creating an asynchronous timer.

answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:52

Peter Alexander

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