cg-timer-interval

Generic Function

Package: common-graphics

Arguments: configuration

This function returns (or sets with setf) the interval that the built-in timer returned by (cg-timer) uses internally for most tasks. Its initial value is 500 (milliseconds). This value could be modified by an application to change the quickness with which Common Graphics does a few things such as generating a mouse-outmouse-out event when the mouse cursor goes outside of any lisp window, and the speed with which the IDE reports the current package and tracing/profiling flags at the right side of the IDE menubar window. Smaller values will make these actions faster, but may bog down other processing if too frequent. cg-timer-interval is a property of the configuration class. The current configuration is the value of

(configuration *system*)

See About the Common Graphics timer facility in cgide.htm.

Common Graphics and IDE documentation is described in About Common Graphics and IDE documentation in cgide.htm.

The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.

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