Spacetick, what is it?

[Blocki]

I seen it in some add-ons by space guy.
What does it do?

[Ad Bot]

[Honorabl3]

Could you post an example of how it's used?

[Blocki]

Code: [Select]

package SpaceTick
{
 function SpaceTick(%ticknum)
 {
  //Controller Ticks
  for(%i=1;(%str = getField($SpaceMods::SpaceTick::Controllers,%i)) !$= "";%i++)
  {
   if(isObject(%str))
   %str.tick();
  }
  $SpaceMods::SpaceTick = schedule(33,0,spacetick);
 }
 function disconnect()
 {
  cancel($SpaceMods::SpaceTick);
  $SpaceMods::SpaceTick = 0;
  for(%i=1;(%str = getField($SpaceTick::SpaceTick::Controllers,%i)) !$= "";%i++)
  {
   if(isObject(%str))
   %str.delete();
  }
  Parent::disconnect();
 }
 function SimSet::tick(%this) //Can't call "XCtrlSO::Tick()" for some reason
 {
  call(%this.callFn,%this);
 }
};activatepackage(SpaceTick);
$SpaceMods::SpaceTick = schedule(33,0,SpaceTick);

[Honorabl3]

It's pretty much a function that acts as a timer. There is truly no reason why it's called "SpaceTick", It can be called anything really.

[Trinick.]

Every add-on Space Guy made that needed a timed tick hooks into this function. It's just so that it's clean, instead of having 5 ticks running concurrently for 5 different add-ons he made, there's 1 tick that he packages.

[Blocki]

But what if different add-ons need to tick at different times?
Then he can't use it?

[Honorabl3]

Multiple ticks can run on the same variable unless canceled.

[Trinick.]

But what if different add-ons need to tick at different times?
Then he can't use it?

Then you make a separate tick. This is for things that need to consistently check frequently.