------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DojoX Timing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 0.1.0 Release date: 08/08/2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project state: experimental ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits Tom Trenka (ttrenka AT gmail.com): original Timer, Streamer, Thread and ThreadPool Wolfram Kriesing (http://wolfram.kriesing.de/blog/): Sequence Jonathan Bond-Caron (jbondc AT gmail.com): port of Timer and Streamer Pete Higgins (phiggins AT gmail.com): port of Sequence Mike Wilcox (anm8tr AT yahoo.com): dojo.doLater ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project description DojoX Timing is a project that deals with any kind of advanced use of timing constructs. The central object, dojox.timing.Timer (included by default), is a simple object that fires a callback on each tick of the timer, as well as when starting or stopping it. The interval of each tick is settable, but the default is 1 second--useful for driving something such as a clock. dojox.timing.Streamer is an object designed to facilitate streaming/buffer-type scenarios; it takes an input and an output function, will execute the output function onTick, and run the input function when the internal buffer gets beneath a certain threshold of items. This can be useful for something timed-- such as updating a data plot at every N interval, and getting new data from a source when there's less than X data points in the internal buffer (think real-time data updating). dojox.timing.Sequencer is an object, similar to Streamer, that will allow you to set up a set of functions to be executed in a specific order, at specific intervals. The DojoX Timing ThreadPool is a port from the original implementation in the f(m) library. It allows a user to feed a set of callback functions (wrapped in a Thread constructor) to a pool for background processing. dojo.doLater() provides a simple mechanism that checks a conditional before allowing your function to continue. If the conditional is false, the function is blocked and continually re-called, with arguments, until the conditional passes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dependencies: DojoX Timing only relies on the Dojo Base. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Documentation TBD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation instructions Grab the following from the Dojo SVN Repository: http://svn.dojotoolkit.org/var/src/dojo/dojox/trunk/timing.js http://svn.dojotoolkit.org/var/src/dojo/dojox/trunk/timing/* Install into the following directory structure: /dojox/timing.js /dojox/timing/ ...which should be at the same level as your Dojo checkout.