On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, saint wrote:
I'm looking for a way to send an object (or an external) a bunch of list
messages and for that object to then store them and output them at 2ms
intervals in a sort of a queue.
if the messages are all of a fixed length and all made of floats, you
could look into using several [pipe] at once.
But if ever you need your messages to be more free-form (variable length,
mixed symbols) you may enjoy [textfile] even though you won't be writing
to files, reading from files, converting to text, or from text. It's a
misnomer really.
And because you can't delete the queue items that you are done with
([textfile] only supports deleting the whole contents), then I suppose
it'd be better if you use a few counters, and use a second [textfile] so
that once in a while, one of the [textfile]s only contains obsolete data,
so that you can clear it, so that you don't make a memory-leak.
Using externals instead of internals, you could use a single [coll], that
can delete single elements. In that case you save yourself the trouble of
double-buffering, but afaik you still have to use counters.
if you want something even more automatic, I haven't looked into
Holzmann's containers, but I assume that they offer a lot more than either
[textfile] or [coll].
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