I have a simple game loop for a pacman clone, and want to add a timer.

After doing some research there are a few options. For example, I have read about a Win32 timer, a WIndows forms timer, and a system threading timer. With the latter the principle appears to be embedding the game loop inside timer events: http://csharptips.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/thread-timer/

This would imply that to count for a number of seconds I could record the number of game loop iterations.

But I wonder, what do people recommend? And what have people used? It's my first look into this subject, so any comments would be useful.

Cheers

Edit: Oops. My response was for C++, not C#.

In the end I used the thread timer method. It's was very easy indeed.

secondsPassed = 0; // Reset the time
timer = new System.Threading.Timer(new System.Threading.TimerCallback(SecondHasPassed), null, 0, 1000);

private void SecondHasPassed(object obj)
{
secondsPassed++;
}

Problem solved