Re: Repeated timeouts period

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

Nicolas George wrote:
[...]
> And think of a chess-game clock: for quick games, having 2s left or having
> 1.1s left may make the whole difference (well, it may be a good idea to
> switch to 1/10s display at the end of the game, but here is the idea).
>
> So timeouts that try to catch up are not an absolute necessity, but they are
> quite useful in some programs.

    Using an event based mainloop like GTK+; which as you noted, simply
isn't designed for perfect accuracy; there will obviously always be
a divergence between the "remaining seconds" and the value displayed
in the "remaining seconds" GtkLabel; that being said, is there anything
wrong with running a timeout function about 10 times every second and
updating the "remaining seconds" label only when needed ?

Cheers,
                              -Tristan