OpenEuphoria

Re: Task API

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Oct 01, 2005
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> A common situation would be that a task waits (tests then yields) 
> for one or more other tasks to all terminate. I want that to have
> low overhead, so I'll probably have a routine that returns a list
> of active or suspended tasks in a 1-d sequence, 
> and another low-overhead routine that returns the status of 
> any one task. Maybe it would return:
>   -1 the task has finished (doesn't exist)
>    0 the task is suspended
>   +1 the task is active

That is an even better idea, and I can still make a task_list_all() routine:

global function task_list_all()
    return {{task_list(0)} & {task_list(1)}}
end function

> By the way, something needed by Language War,
> and other games, is the ability to stop the scheduler's clock,
> and restart it later. In LW for instance, the user is allowed
> to freeze the game (to answer the phone etc.). When he resumes
> the game a few minutes later, it's not good for all 
> real-time tasks to suddenly be ready to run.

Would this be another routine or two? Perhaps something like task_reset() and/or
task_stop()?

> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
> 


Regards,
Vincent