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    From Nightfox to Digital Man on Fri Feb 4 19:17:37 2011
    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?

    Nightfox
  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Mon Feb 7 15:10:24 2011
    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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  • From Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Feb 7 19:28:37 2011
    Re: Threading or timer functions
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Feb 07 2011 15:10:24

    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. Inste 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 elapsed time.

    Thanks.

    Nightfox