Kaztimer is a small library that provides cross-platform timers for game development. It provides both fixed and variable step timers. The former is great for physics simulations, the later for general framerate independence.
First, add the source files to your project and include kaztimer.h. Then creating and using timers is pretty straightforward:
KTIuint timers[2];
ktiGenTimers(2, timers);
ktiBindTimer(timers[0]);
ktiStartFixedStepTimer(30); //30 updates per second
while(ktiTimerCanUpdate()) {
float dt = ktiGetDeltaTime(); //Will always return a fixed value
//Do fixed step stuff (e.g. physics)
}
ktiBindTimer(timers[1]);
ktiStartGameTimer();
float deltatime = ktiGetDeltaTime(); //Variable return value
//ktiTimerCanUpdate() will always return true
//Update based on elapsed time
