Indeed, and I have found that this article helped me to improve my code: http://genodians.org/m-stein/2021-05-31-a-short-guide-to-the-timer-session-i...

But if you're specifically after keyboard/mouse input, you'll probably want to do it with a 'sigh' instead of with polling: install a sigh (signal handler) for keyboard events, and implement its hook function ; e.g. I have this in my code:

class hog::InputBridger

{

private:  // Code

void handleOneEvent(

const Input::Event & ev

);

Genode::Entrypoint localEp;  // Genode thread dedicated to the sigh

Genode::Signal_handler<InputBridger>

inputHandler;

}

void hog::InputBridger::handleInput()

{

serverInput.for_each_event(

[&] ( Input::Event const & ev )

...

... (handle mouse and keyboard events here)

}

ctor:

serverInput.sigh( inputHandler );

Grepping the genode "repos/" folder will yield lots of examples.

Cedric

You can wait by getting a Timer::Connection and using either the msleep() or usleep() method, depending on whether you have ms or us.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 10:10 AM Kevin Burton kevin.burton@tum.de wrote:

Hello Genodians,

is it possible to have the main thread either sleep for a specific amount of time or have it wait for a keyboard input? If yes, how would I go about implementing it?

I have read online that the Timer service is in charge of sleeps, but I