Perhaps I''m confusing terminology..if so someone please correct me. Anyways, I''ve got a mouse update/polling function that I''d ideally like to be automatically called every certain number of times per second (roughly of course). I had used the Windows SDK CreateThread method to try and get that to work (I''m skipping over the non important stuff here), and it just gets called once and then exits. That makes sense to me, cause it''s just starting a new thread, which isn''t supposed to be called again after it finishes execution. But what I can''t figure out is how to get my update/polling function to be run in a separate thread AND be called repeatedly a certain number of times per second. Can someone explain or at least point me to the right MSDN page? Thanks.

I don''t have time to go into detail now, but why not make the function your thread runs contain a simple loop?

  // pseudo codeint someFunction(){  while(gameIsRunning)  {    if(currenttime==nextTime)    {      pollInput();      nextTime=currenttime+100;    }  }  return 0;}  

Basically, just keep looping through as long as the game is still running. Get the time, and if it''s been a certain inverval (say 100 milliseconds) since the last time you polled, do it again, then set the next time to try to 100ms in the future.

Make sense? Someone will probably give a better answer later on anyway heh.

Anthracks

The function you pass to CreateThread should sit in a loop and poll the mouse. To terminate it, you can send it a message (SendThreadMessage) or use a Mutex.

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Thanks to Kylotan for the idea!