SoTimerSensor — sensor that triggers callback repeatedly at regular intervals
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Description
Timer sensors trigger their callback function at regular intervals. For example, a timer might be setup
to call its callback function every second on the second by setting the base time to SbTime(0.0) and the
interval to SbTime(1.0). Timers are guaranteed to be triggered only once when the timer queue is
processed, so if the application only processes the timer queue once every 5 seconds (because it is busy
doing something else) the once-a-second sensor's callback will be called only once every 5 seconds.
Note also that SoTimers always schedule themselves to be triggered the next even multiple of the interval
time after the base time; so, for example, if the once-a-second sensor is triggered at time 2.9 (because
the application way busy doing something at time 2.0 and didn't get around to processing the sensor queue
for a while) it will reschedule itself to go off at time 3.0, not at time 3.9. If the base time was never
set, the sensor would be scheduled for time 3.9.
Inherits From
SoSensor > SoTimerQueueSensor > SoTimerSensor
Methods
SoTimerSensor()SoTimerSensor(SoSensorCB*func,void*data)
Creation methods. The second method takes the callback function and data to be called when the sensor
is triggered.
~SoTimerSensor()
Destroys the sensor, freeing up any memory associated with it after unscheduling it.
voidsetBaseTime(constSbTime&base)constSbTime&getBaseTime()constvoidsetInterval(constSbTime&interval)constSbTime&getInterval()const
Sets/gets the base time and the interval. The default base time is the time when the sensor is
scheduled or rescheduled, and the default interval is 1/30th of a second.
Name
SoTimerSensor — sensor that triggers callback repeatedly at regular intervals
See Also
SoOneShotSensor,SoAlarmSensor,SoTimerQueueSensor,SbTimeSoTimerSensor(3IV)()
Synopsis
#include<Inventor/sensors/SoTimerSensor.h>
Methods from class SoTimerSensor:
SoTimerSensor()SoTimerSensor(SoSensorCB*func,void*data)~SoTimerSensor()voidsetBaseTime(constSbTime&base)constSbTime&getBaseTime()constvoidsetInterval(constSbTime&interval)constSbTime&getInterval()const
Methods from class SoTimerQueueSensor:
constSbTime&getTriggerTime()virtualvoidschedule()virtualvoidunschedule()virtualSbBoolisScheduled()
Methods from class SoSensor:
voidsetFunction(SoSensorCB*callbackFunction)SoSensorCB*getFunction()constvoidsetData(void*callbackData)void*getData()const