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[increpare]

I pretty much had a hilarious run-in yesterday with what has, upon reflection, to be one of the worst timer routines I've come across (well, ok; maybe just the worst particular usage).

It was one of these ones that looks like

timer_tick(
tick++
)

main loop {
while (true)
{
    while (tick>0)
    {
        do_logic();
    }
    do_draw();
}

basically the stuff in my game was entirely input-triggered.  dragging in particular would cause a lot of stuff to be recalculated on a continual basis; basically, when things got in any way complicated and people started dragging stuff about, it would never leave the logic loop, and nothing would be redrawn at all  :D 

Going to need something a little bit more refined for this game....

[cpets]

Is this your way of starting a "post your inner loop" thread without recycling the subject line from the main function thread?