nanogui: Timer Event Patch for Nano-X
Subject:
Re: Timer Event Patch for Nano-X
From:
"Gary James" ####@####.####
Date:
8 May 2001 14:20:43 -0000
Message-Id: <3AF7C872.10686.A7826@localhost>
> On Tue, 8 May 2001, Gary James wrote:
> > I've made some modifications to allow creating periodic timers in nano-X
> > applications. There are two new functions in the nano-X API GrCreateTimer()
> > and GrDestroyTimer(). When you create a timer you specify a window ID and a
> > timeout period. You can have more than one timer per window. A
> > GR_TIMER_EVENT will be generated every time the timer period expires.
>
> Good work. It would be nice if it was possible to associate a "magic
> number" with each timer, to make it possible for the client to determine
> which timer triggered when there are several of them associated with one
> window. I wouldn't bother making it pointer sized (as in void *arg) as
> that brings up problems with different architectures having different
> address lengths and wastes bandwidth- I'd use a 16 bit type.
I'm including the timer ID (GR_TIMER_ID) in the event structure for
this purpose.
Gary James
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