[Gambas-user] timer overlaps

[Christopher Brian Jack]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Rob Kudla wrote:

> On Fri January 27 2006 16:16, Christopher Brian Jack wrote:
> > So you would be suggestion something like this?
> > Public Sub myTimer_Timer()
>
> I personally have only ever delayed redrawing the screen when I
> ran out of time, but if your client operations may take more
> than a timer tick to complete too, sure, you can do that.
>
> Rob

There's nesting in them there hills.  The client of the scheduler (done by
passing ME to a BeginScheduling() method I wrote called from the class
desiring scheduling) has a method "Scheduler"  called in the class who
passed itself to the argument of BeginScheduling().  It was good to find a
way to dynamicall do method calls otherwise a lot more chicanery would
have been needed.

I think I'll create another timer specifically for rendering attachment.
Then I need to think about how the game data is going to cope with
asynchronous attempts to render.  Sounds like the game logic needs a
Snapshot method to make an instant world-state snapshot from existing data
but in a copy so that the renderer's copy will not be affected by
possibly higher-paced game logic updates.  When the renderer starts a pass
it will make a snapshot call to get a "frame" of the game logic to display
to the screen (actually a DrawingArea).

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