Creating a UDT to display device status for each view in Perspective

[pturmel]

@nminchin

too long to explain/get me started?

See this recent topic:

How to trigger a gateway timer to trigger immediately but no more than four times per minute?

I usually use this construct at the top level of a script module: from java.util.concurrent import LinkedBlockingDeque, TimeUnit # Capacity = 100. The new instance is thrown away if already in globals. deque = system.util.getGlobals().setdefault('MySpecialForeverQueue', LinkedBlockingDeque(100)) def someTimerEvent(event): next = deque.poll(15000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) if next: # handle it # Run the above at a fixed **rate** matching the poll timeout. Use ConcurrentLinkedDeque if you do…

@nminchin

inefficient to constantly define a function

This, unless you really need a closure for a short function, but

@nminchin

Or are there other reasons?

Many event scripts have legacy scope rules that prevent def from pulling in any top level variables in that script into the function scope. Move such to project library scripts. (That's why you see import system in functions def'd in those scopes.)