nanogui: Periodic Timer Bug, Thanks Alex
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] Periodic Timer Bug, Thanks Alex
From:
"Gary James" ####@####.####
Date:
11 Feb 2002 15:28:50 -0000
Message-Id: <3C679C03.9251.2A14E9@localhost>
From: Alex Holden ####@####.####
> No problem. Some of the problems I was having was a bug in the test
> programs I wrote (selecting for a TIMEOUT event instead of a TIMER
> event). I've got rid of GdAddPeriodicTimer() and added a "periodic"
> boolean to GdAddTimer() instead (since the two functions were almost
> exactly the same as each other),
Yup, that is probably better. I was reluctant to change the
GdAddTimer() function's API since I wasn't sure who else relied on it.
> and I've modified GrCreateTimer() to
> also take a "periodic" boolean (so you can set one shot timers from
> the client as well as periodic ones). I also made two demo programs to
> test and demonstrate the use of the functions.
Cool
> The bug I referred to
> above was that when a client exited, the timers associated with it
> were not being destroyed so they just kept on periodically firing in
> the kernel.
Yea, as soon as you mentioned the problem it became obvious that I
had not considered that.
> I also added the documentation for the calls in client.c
> and generally tidied up the code to conform to the same style as the
> rest of Microwindows.
>
Take care,
Gary James
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