[Fluxus] every-frame & frame hooks

[nik gaffney]

> Look for spawn-task in the e-mail archive.

thanks for the pointer, looks much more robust than my fragile map &
apply method.

> But basically -
> 
>> (spawn-task foo 'bar)
>> (spawn-task (lambda () (draw-cube)) 'cube)
>> (ls-tasks)
> task: bar #<procedure:foo>
> task: cube #<procedure>
>> (rm-task 'bar)
> 
> These "tasks" (they are currently just thunks... but I may get around to
> adding continuation support), will catch errors and keep TRYING to run
> until they are rm'd (they can rm themselves, which can be useful). Oh -
> and there are 'timed tasks' for doing things in the future... check out
> tasks.ss for deets.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:59 AM, nik gaffney <nik at fo.am
> <mailto:nik at fo.am>> wrote:
> 
>     hi all,.
> 
>     i remember some relatively recent discussion about either including (or
>     avoiding) frame hooks or timer functions as an alternate way of running
>     a handler for multiple functions from every-frame,
> 
>     was this resolved either way? is there currently a standard way to run
>     multiple functions each frame, or at a regular interval?
> 
>     nik
> 
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