Python's Timer: from threading import Timer

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@lrose

Are you testing this in the Designer or in a real Session?

I'm testing in the designer for now.

@lrose

system.util.invokeLater() has a delay parameter.

You are right but I avoided it when I read this post:

@PGriffith

@pturmel has a later.py implementation here on the forums that uses an (internal) class to allow for the ‘delayed execution’ functionality of invokeLater to work on the gateway.

Answering these questions:

@lrose

I think you’re headed down a perilous road here. How do you plan to manage the life cycle of these threads? I see no way to halt or interrupt the timer. What happens if the gateway service needs to be rebooted? Or the project is saved restarting scripting?

There is no way to control them according to my research. If the gateway is rebooted or the scripts are restarted I will lose that execution.

I could use a Gateway Timer to check every XX time or Life Cycle Module. A Timer wouldn't execute in the exact moment and pturmel's module is new to me.