[chuck-users] Strategies for Complex Timing

[Scott Wheeler]

Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote:
> [...] IMplement an infrastructure for timers in which, a particular method of all attached objects gets called when-ever a specified amount of time has elapsed. [...]

Coming from a Max background, one of the first things that I worked out 
was a Metro object:

http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/files/Metro.ck

That is overly simple, but a reasonable example.  From there you can do 
stuff like:

fun void beat(Metro m)
{
    while(m.pulse => now)
    {
       <<< "beat" >>>;
    }
}
   

Metro m;
m.start();
spork ~ beat(m);


30::second => now;

ChucK lets you wait on events just like it lets you wait on arbitrary 
time or sample amounts, so it makes it easy to synchronize multiple 
shreds based on them.

-Scott