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Re: Coord timed events

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Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 17/06/2021 11:06 am, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I need to trigger up to 12 "events" with timings a user sets. The
>>> timings (in seconds) could be anything from 0 to, say, 300.
>>>
>>> One way I though to handle them was to: put the timings into an array,
>>> sort the array (from lowest to highest), loop over the array and call
>>> setTimeout on each one.
>> Hmm...  Why not just call setTimeout without sorting them?  I must be
>> missing some key part of the problem...
>
> If I have 12 setTimeout waiting to happen and the user gives focus to
> a different "component" I'll need to clear all the setTimeout.

There's no way someone could know that from your original question!
That's why I said I must be missing something.  You have other
constraints -- either imposed by previous design decisions or just from
how you want to do things -- that make the obvious solution
unattractive.

If you could list the constraints, or at least say what it is you are
actually doing, you might get some helpful suggestions.

-- 
Ben.

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Re: Coord timed events Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-06-17 02:06 +0100
  Re: Coord timed events Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2021-06-17 13:17 +1000
    Re: Coord timed events Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-06-17 11:20 +0100
    Re: Coord timed events Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2021-06-17 13:21 -0700
      Re: Coord timed events Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2021-06-18 11:03 +1000
        Re: Coord timed events Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2021-06-20 23:40 -0700
          Re: Coord timed events Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2021-06-20 23:48 -0700
            Re: Coord timed events Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 12:11 -0700

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