RealTimeDaemonclassevents.t[1233]

Real-time daemon. This is an event that occurs repeatedly at given real-time intervals. When a daemon is executed, it is scheduled again for execution after its real-time interval elapses again. The daemon's first execution will occur one interval from the time at which the daemon is created.

If a daemon is executed late (because other, more pressing tasks had to be completed first, or because the user was busy editing a command line and the local platform doesn't support real-time command interruptions), the interval is applied to the time the daemon actually executed, not to the originally scheduled execution time. For example, if the daemon is scheduled to run once every minute, but can't run at all for five minutes because of command editing on a non-interrupting platform, once it actually does run, it won't run again for (at least) another minute after that. This means that the daemon will not run five times all at once when it's finally allowed to run - there's no making up for lost time.

class RealTimeDaemon :   RealTimeEvent

Superclass Tree   (in declaration order)

RealTimeDaemon
        RealTimeEvent
                BasicEvent
                        object

Subclass Tree  

RealTimeDaemon
        RealTimeSenseDaemon

Global Objects  

(none)

Summary of Properties  

interval_ 

Inherited from RealTimeEvent :
eventTime 

Inherited from BasicEvent :
obj_  prop_  sense_  source_ 

Summary of Methods  

construct  executeEvent 

Inherited from RealTimeEvent :
getEventTime  removeEvent 

Inherited from BasicEvent :
callMethod  eventMatches 

Properties  

interval_events.t[1275]

my execution interval, in milliseconds

Methods  

construct (obj, prop, interval)OVERRIDDENevents.t[1238]

Creation. 'interval' is the number of milliseconds between invocations.

executeEvent ( )OVERRIDDENevents.t[1254]
execute the daemon

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