NAME

       al_wait_for_event_timed - Allegro 5 API

SYNOPSIS

              #include <allegro5/allegro.h>

              bool al_wait_for_event_timed(ALLEGRO_EVENT_QUEUE *queue,
                 ALLEGRO_EVENT *ret_event, float secs)

DESCRIPTION

       Wait  until  the  event  queue  specified is non-empty.  If ret_event is not NULL, the first event in the
       queue will be copied into ret_event and removed from the queue.  If ret_event is NULL the first event  is
       left at the head of the queue.

       secs  determines approximately how many seconds to wait.  If the call times out, false is returned.  Oth‐
       erwise, if an event ocurred, true is returned.

       For compatibility with all platforms, secs must be 2,147,483.647 seconds or less.

SEE ALSO

       ALLEGRO_EVENT(3alleg5), al_wait_for_event(3alleg5), al_wait_for_event_until(3alleg5)

Allegro reference manual                                                        al_wait_for_event_timed(3alleg5)