The problem with Sean Kelly's and the message sending approach is that when using gtk I have to call Main.run(); and it pauses then untill the windows are all closed. when I place a loop before Main.run() I never get a window so If I want to use some kind of timer using threads I need to use shared? (correct me if I'm wrong)

The glib.Timeout works like a charm, Thank you chris

2011/7/20 Sean Kelly <sean@invisibleduck.org>
On Jul 19, 2011, at 3:19 AM, maarten van damme wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> for getting to know d a little bit I'm writing a simple pingpong game using gtk.
> for it to work I need to be able to do something every 0.1 seconds so I was wondering if there was some kind of timer in the phobos library.
> I've looked everywhere but couldn't find one. Is it missing and do i have to write my own or have I overlooked it?

void loop() {
   while( true ) {
       doWhatever();
       Thread.sleep(dur!"msecs"(100));
   }
}

spawn(&loop);


Or you could have the spawned thread send a message every 100 milliseconds, etc.