| From: | Joseph Duchâtelet |
| Date: | 23 May 2001 at 08:03:39 |
| Subject: | Re: Timer device |
Hello ronphil@pld.com
On 22-May-01, you wrote:
> Hello;
>
> Could anybody recommend a library or anything else that operates a
> timer.device that runs as a task without chewing up processor cycles
> just checking and waiting for an event. The time functions in Arexx
> have pretty limited use. What I am trying to do is set some times and
> have a flag or other signal sent when that event comes up. I can do
> this now but constantly looping and checking the time against a
> varible really bogs down other things that are running. I don't know
> for sure about Arexx but doing this in other interpreters usually
> results in the garbage building up and crashing the computer. Surely
> there is a more elegant way to do something this simple.
>
> Ron Phillips
>
Try Gui4Cli on its own or as a gui which controls arexx & Dos scripts.
Simple and has all the events you need.
Joseph
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