Review of the main loop timer, converted timers from float to unsigned long,

corrected a number of timing bugs, improved client framerate stability.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/application.h b/src/core/application.h
index 37b70c2..cdaef67 100644
--- a/src/core/application.h
+++ b/src/core/application.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #define __INCLUDED_CORE_APPLICATION_H__
 
 #include "sys/sys.h"
+#include "sys/timer.h"
 
 #include "core/commandbuffer.h"
 #include "core/cvar.h"
@@ -30,14 +31,16 @@ public:
 
 	/*-----  inspectors ----------------------------------------------- */
 
-	/// the current application time, in microseconds
+	/// the current application time, in milliseconds
 	inline unsigned long timestamp() const {
-		return application_timestamp;
+		return application_timer.timestamp();
 	}
-
-	/// the current application time, in seconds
-	float time() const {
-		return ((float)(timestamp()) / 1000.0f);
+	
+	/**
+	 * @brief return the current application time, in seconds.
+	 * */
+	inline float time() const {
+		return (float) application_timer.timestamp() / 1000.0f;
 	}
 
 	/// true if the core is connected to a running game interface
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ public:
 
 protected:
 	/// run a core frame
-	virtual void frame(unsigned long timestamp);
+	virtual void frame();
 
 	/// load cvar config
 	void load_config();
@@ -114,8 +117,8 @@ protected:
 	void load_commandline(int count, char **argments);
 
 private:
-	/// time the core has been running
-	unsigned long		application_timestamp;
+	/// main loop timer
+	sys::Timer		application_timer;
 
 	GameInterface		*application_game;