[etoys-dev] Timers

[kharness at illinois.edu]

Bert, 
Yes! It is very useful, I like it.
Kathleen

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:16:24 +0200
>From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>  
>Subject: [etoys-dev] Timers  
>To: etoys-dev at squeakland.org
>
>This is related to the discussion of non-accurate tick rates:
>http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-708
>
>There currently is no good way to measure real time in Etoys. The Clock object is only accurate to one second.
>
>So I'm proposing to have a global timer, in seconds, but with milli-second resolution. There would be a tile for accessing it in the world's "playfield" category (actually any playfield / holder).
>
>This would allow to do animations etc to proceed in real time, independent of the actual tick rate of a script.
>
>I just posted a proposed implementation to the inbox (Etoys-bf.31). Also, find attached an example project.
>
>Would that be generally useful?
>
>- Bert -
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