* | Inspire Internet Relay Chat Daemon |
* +------------------------------------+
*
- * InspIRCd is copyright (C) 2002-2006 ChatSpike-Dev.
- * E-mail:
- * <brain@chatspike.net>
- * <Craig@chatspike.net>
+ * InspIRCd: (C) 2002-2007 InspIRCd Development Team
+ * See: http://www.inspircd.org/wiki/index.php/Credits
*
- * Written by Craig Edwards, Craig McLure, and others.
* This program is free but copyrighted software; see
* the file COPYING for details.
*
/** The triggering time
*/
time_t trigger;
+ /** Number of seconds between triggers
+ */
+ long secs;
+ /** True if this is a repeating timer
+ */
+ bool repeat;
public:
/** Default constructor, initializes the triggering time
+ * @param secs_from_now The number of seconds from now to trigger the timer
+ * @param now The time now
+ * @param repeating Repeat this timer every secs_from_now seconds if set to true
*/
- InspTimer(long secs_from_now,time_t now)
+ InspTimer(long secs_from_now,time_t now, bool repeating = false)
{
trigger = now + secs_from_now;
+ secs = secs_from_now;
+ repeat = repeating;
}
+
/** Default destructor, does nothing.
*/
virtual ~InspTimer() { }
+
/** Retrieve the current triggering time
*/
virtual time_t GetTimer()
{
return trigger;
}
+
/** Called when the timer ticks.
+ * You should override this method with some useful code to
+ * handle the tick event.
*/
virtual void Tick(time_t TIME) = 0;
+
+ /** Returns true if this timer is set to repeat
+ */
+ bool GetRepeat()
+ {
+ return repeat;
+ }
+
+ /** Returns the interval (number of seconds between ticks)
+ * of this timer object.
+ */
+ long GetSecs()
+ {
+ return secs;
+ }
+
+ /** Cancels the repeat state of a repeating timer.
+ * If you call this method, then the next time your
+ * timer ticks, it will be removed immediately after.
+ * You should use this method call to remove a recurring
+ * timer if you wish to do so within the timer's Tick
+ * event, as calling TimerManager::DelTimer() from within
+ * the InspTimer::Tick() method is dangerous and may
+ * cause a segmentation fault. Calling CancelRepeat()
+ * is safe in this case.
+ */
+ void CancelRepeat()
+ {
+ repeat = false;
+ }
};
void TickTimers(time_t TIME);
/** Add an InspTimer
* @param T an InspTimer derived class to add
+ * @param secs_from_now You may set this to the number of seconds
+ * from the current time when the timer will tick, or you may just
+ * leave this unset and the values set by the InspTimers constructor
+ * will be used. This is used internally for re-triggering repeating
+ * timers.
*/
- void AddTimer(InspTimer* T);
- /** Delete and InspTImer
+ void AddTimer(InspTimer* T, long secs_from_now = 0);
+ /** Delete an InspTimer
* @param T an InspTimer derived class to delete
*/
void DelTimer(InspTimer* T);