ocaml/otherlibs/labltk/support/timer.ml

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(*                Objective Caml LablTk library                          *)
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(*         Francois Rouaix, Francois Pessaux and Jun Furuse              *)
(*               projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt                      *)
(*            Jacques Garrigue, Kyoto University RIMS                    *)
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(*   Copyright 1999 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et    *)
(*   en Automatique and Kyoto University.  All rights reserved.          *)
(*   This file is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library         *)
(*   General Public License.                                             *)
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(* $Id$ *)

(* Timers *)
open Protocol

type tkTimer = int

external internal_add_timer : int -> cbid -> tkTimer
        =  "camltk_add_timer"
external internal_rem_timer : tkTimer -> unit
        =  "camltk_rem_timer"

type t = tkTimer * cbid (* the token and the cb id *)

(* A timer is used only once, so we must clean the callback table *)
let add ~ms ~callback =
  let id = new_function_id () in
  let wrapped _ =
    clear_callback id; (* do it first in case f raises exception *)
    callback() in
  Hashtbl.add callback_naming_table ~key:id ~data:wrapped;
  if !Protocol.debug then begin
    prerr_cbid id; prerr_endline " for timer"
  end;
  let t = internal_add_timer ms id in
   t,id

let set ~ms ~callback = ignore (add ~ms ~callback);;

(* If the timer has never been used, there is a small space leak in
   the C heap, where a copy of id has been stored *)
let remove (tkTimer, id) =
  internal_rem_timer tkTimer;
  clear_callback id