On 2008-04-01, Gregory Weston <uce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> Out of interest - and this is purely a hypothetical question - how
would I
>> have two timers, both firing at 2 second inteveals but separeted by a
>> second?
>>
>> I realise that timers aren't _very_ precise, hence the question may be
>> nonsense. I'm just curious.
>
> You wouldn't. What you would do depends on what you're really trying to
> accomplish.
>
> If you really wanted to work with multiple timers you'd probably issue
> two calls to the Carbon routine InstallEventLoopTimer() with the second
> argument for each set to put them appropriately out of phase with each
> other. But if you're looking, for example, to have a timer firing every
> two seconds to set the LED image to "off" and another firing every 2
> seconds (but offset by 1 second from the first) to set it to either red
> or green on, I'd say you should really just have a single timer that
> fires every second and sets it appropriate based on both the current
> state and the external is-it-up flag.
It wasn't for that purpose - as you say I'd control it all with a single
timer and variable tweaking.
I didn't really have a purpose in mind, it was just a random 'I wonder
how...' moment.
Thank you.
Jim
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