Registering Watchers with Event::Watxher

1999-12-15 Thread Gavin
I'm trying to create a new perl Event watcher type for a C++ messaging API that my company uses. Embedding the perl event loop, and creating watchers that mimic the behavior of the perl ones has been surprisingly easy. However I see, from looking at Event::tcpsession and process.pm, that the Eve

Re: newbie question?

1999-12-15 Thread John Salmon
Please feel free to copy my script to anywhere that seems useful, e.g., the demo directory, somewhere in the docs, etc. Cheers, John

Re: newbie question?

1999-12-15 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 09:40:25AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bingo! That one works. Thanks. So the bottom line is: you must use > the interval attribute and the interval method if the timer is going > to be reused. Maybe this observation is worth a line in the pod? Can I add your scr

Re: newbie question?

1999-12-15 Thread John Salmon
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 09:11:53AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not quite. It didn't work the first time, so I tried calling the at() > method directly. Viz: > > $w = Event->timer(after => 1); > > $w->cb(sub { > $now = Event::time(); > $next = $now + rand(20.); > print "Now:

Re: newbie question?

1999-12-15 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 09:11:53AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not quite. It didn't work the first time, so I tried calling the at() > method directly. Viz: > > $w = Event->timer(after => 1); > > $w->cb(sub { > $now = Event::time(); > $next = $now + rand(20.); > print "Now: "

Re: newbie question?

1999-12-15 Thread John Salmon
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 09:03:51PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to solve a problem that I think should be able to use > Event. I hope someone can point me in the right direction. > > The basic structure is that I have a several tasks to perform repeatedly, > but I don't know whe

Re: newbie question?

1999-12-15 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 09:03:51PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to solve a problem that I think should be able to use > Event. I hope someone can point me in the right direction. > > The basic structure is that I have a several tasks to perform repeatedly, > but I don't know when