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ucommon::TimerQueue Class Reference

A timer queue for timer events. More...

#include <timers.h>

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Data Structures

class  event
 A timer event object that lives on a timer queue. More...

Public Member Functions

timeout_t expire ()
 Process timer queue and find when next event triggers.
void operator+= (event &timer)
 Add a timer event to the timer queue.
void operator-= (event &timer)
 Remove a timer event from the timer queue.
 TimerQueue ()
 Create an empty timer queue.
virtual ~TimerQueue ()
 Destroy queue, does not remove event objects.

Protected Member Functions

virtual void modify (void)=0
 Called in derived class when the queue is being modified.
virtual void update (void)=0
 Called in derived class after the queue has been modified.

Friends

class event

Detailed Description

A timer queue for timer events.

The timer queue is used to hold a linked list of timers that must be processed together. The timer queue processes the timer event list and calls an expired function on events that have expired. The timer queue also determines the wait time until the next timer will expire. When timer events are modified, they can retrigger the queue to re-examine the list to find when the next timer will now expire.

Author:
David Sugar dyfet.nosp@m.@gnu.nosp@m.telep.nosp@m.hony.nosp@m..org

Definition at line 269 of file timers.h.


Member Function Documentation

Process timer queue and find when next event triggers.

This function will call the expired methods on expired timers. Normally this function will be called in the context of a timer thread which sleeps for the timeout returned unless it is awoken on an update event.

Returns:
timeout until next timer expires in milliseconds.
virtual void ucommon::TimerQueue::modify ( void  ) [protected, pure virtual]

Called in derived class when the queue is being modified.

This is often used to lock the list.

void ucommon::TimerQueue::operator+= ( event timer)

Add a timer event to the timer queue.

Parameters:
timerevent to add.
void ucommon::TimerQueue::operator-= ( event timer)

Remove a timer event from the timer queue.

Parameters:
timerevent to remove.
virtual void ucommon::TimerQueue::update ( void  ) [protected, pure virtual]

Called in derived class after the queue has been modified.

This often releases a lock that modify set and to wakeup a timer thread to evaluate when the next timer will now expire.


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