Multiple Timers / OnTimer events

Spotware
12 Jun 2015, 12:51

Dear Trader,

Currently there is only one Timer object in cAlgo.API. We will consider providing users the ability to use multiple timers.

Tj11
22 Mar 2020, 10:32

You could use the construction :

public TimeSpan timePassed;

protected override void OnTimer()
        {
            timePassed = timePassed + Timer.Interval;

            //example seconds

            if (timePassed.Seconds > 10)
            {
            }
        }

firemyst
08 Apr 2020, 17:25

RE:

Tj11 said:

You could use the construction :

public TimeSpan timePassed;

 

protected override void OnTimer()
        {
            timePassed = timePassed + Timer.Interval;

            //example seconds

            if (timePassed.Seconds > 10)
            {
            }
        }

Good start of a work around. However, the biggest drawback is the timer event would have to be set to go off at the smallest common interval.

For instance, if you want an event to happen every 5 seconds and 30 seconds, you have to set the timer event to either 1 or 5 seconds; if you set it at 2, 3, 4, or something else, one of those 5/30 second events will be 'late'.

Similarly, if you want an event to happen every 30 seconds and another at 4 minutes (240 seconds), you have to set the timer event to occur at 1, 5, 10, 15, or 30 second intervals.

The next thing is change the ">" to ">="

:-)