fi.hut.tml.xsmiles.timesheet.timer
Class Timer

java.lang.Object
  fi.hut.tml.xsmiles.timesheet.timer.Timer

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class Timer

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.lang.Runnable

Class Timer is the scheduler for TimedElement instances. Timer listens for ticks that are produced by static singleton instance of the inner class Clock. By every tick the Timer calls the update(long)-method of the registered TimedElement instances.

Since:

Mar 2, 2004

Version:

$Revision: 5510 $, $Date: 2004-09-16 14:56:17 +0300 (Thu, 16 Sep 2004) $

Author:

tjjalava

Nested Class Summary

protected class

Timer.Clock Class Clock produces one clock tick every INTERVAL milliseconds

Field Summary

protected Timer.Clock	clock
protected static int	INTERVAL The interval for ticks

Constructor Summary

Timer(TimedElement root)
Creates the Timer instance

Method Summary

void	pause(boolean paused)
void	run()
void	setClocker(Clocker clocker)
void	start() Starts the Timer
void	stop() Stops Timer
static long	ticksToTime(long ticks)
static long	timeToTicks(long millis) Converts milliseconds, used in the attributes of Timesheets into ticks

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

INTERVAL

protected static final int INTERVAL

The interval for ticks

See Also:

Constant Field Values

clock

protected final Timer.Clock clock

Constructor Detail

Timer

public Timer(TimedElement root)

Creates the Timer instance

Method Detail

setClocker

public void setClocker(Clocker clocker)

timeToTicks

public static long timeToTicks(long millis)

Converts milliseconds, used in the attributes of Timesheets into ticks

Parameters:

millis - the time used in timesheets

Returns:

ticks corresponding to the millis

ticksToTime

public static long ticksToTime(long ticks)

start

public void start()

Starts the Timer

pause

public void pause(boolean paused)

stop

public void stop()

Stops Timer

run

public void run()

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable