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I have a certain piece of code that I want to run every 2 minutes. One of my ideas is to get the time and modules that with whatever number represents 2 minutes. Would this work? and is there a simpler way to do accomplish the same thing?
I think knowing how to do this will come in handy in the future so I am trying to obtain the most elegant solution. Thanks in advance for any help!
Is this linux or windows? You could create a script or batch file that runs a program every 2 minutes. You could also use Sleep() in your program.
Oh sorry forgot to specify. It's for windows. I've actually used sleep in a bash script file and just checked that it can be used in c++. Thanks for the help I think that'll work well. :)
Since you're using windows, you can also put delays in batch files by using the ping command (assuming you're using Windows XP or later). Example batch file fragment that delays for 5 seconds:
@rem pause for 5 seconds (set n to count + 1)
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 6 >nul
If you're doing this in a thread or process that isn't running a message pump (e.g. a command line program) then sleep() is fine.
If you're doing this in a Windows GUI program (or anything that has a message pump handling messages from the OS), you should register a timer and respond to the timer events.