[Ns-developers] SingleEvent and EventCollector

[Gustavo Carneiro]

On 30/07/07, Tom Henderson <tomh at tomh.org> wrote:
>
> Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
> > Hello.  I've added two new classes to
> > http://code.nsnam.org/gjc/ns-3-olsr-support/
> >
> > SingleEvent:
> >
> > Used to track a single event at a time.  Cancels the underlying event in
> the
> > destructor, so that we never get accidental callbacks to a destroyed
> object
> > (as long as we keep the SingleEvent as a member of such object)
> >
> > This should more or less replace Timer.
>
> Do you envision that a class Timer will subclass or wrap this object, or
> will class Timer be a typedef of SingleEvent, or will users declare a
> SingleEvent when they want a timer?  I see the current OLSR code still
> uses class Timer.


Not true:

http://code.nsnam.org/gjc/ns-3-olsr/rev/b5ff7d8efe27

SingleEvent really replaces Timer.

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert