Subj : Threading or timer functions
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Feb 07 2011 03:10 pm

  Re: Threading or timer functions
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Fri Feb 04 2011 07:17 pm

 > Hi DM -
 >
 > In one of my JS scripts for Synchronet, there is something that I would
 > like to have happen periodically.  It's something that could be handled
 > using JavaScript's setInterval() function, but it appears that function is
 > not available in Synchronet's JS.  I looked through the documentation
 > (jsobjs.html) for something related to timers or threads but didn't see an
 > equivalent there.
 > I did see the queue class, which mentions that it's used for
 > inter-thread/module communications, but I didn't see any functions for
 > running something in a separate thread.  The closest I could think of,
 > looking at the docs, is to use load() to load & execute another JS script
 > in the background - is there a better way to do it?

load(true,...) is the only way to start background thread. For something to
happen periodically, that's probably not the best way to achieve that. Instead,
have a main loop (e.g. watching for keyboard input or whatever is equivalent
for your script) and have it periodically perform the desired task based on the
elapsed time.

                                            digital man

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