Source Files

• portions of tclTimer.c

Public Interface

• Tcl_CreateTimerHandler
• Tcl_DeleteTimerHandler
• Tcl_DoWhenIdle
• Tcl_CancelIdleCall

Private Interface

• TclCreateAbsoluteTimerHandler
• TclServiceIdle

Directly Depends On Public Interface

• Threads
• Allocation
• Event Loops
• Time Measurement
• Notifier

Directly Depends On Private Interface of

• Threads

Discussion

The private dependency is on TclThreadDataKeyGet which appears easily convertible to Tcl_GetThreadData.

The private routine TclCreateAbsoluteTimerHandler appears to exist just so that Tcl_LimitSetTime doesnt have to pass through milliseconds (and the loss of precision implicit in that conversion). Since Tcl_Time values are already in the public Tcl interface, this would be a good routine to make public, though perhaps with a name change.

It was observed on TCLCORE that the use of long fields within the Tcl_Time struct, rather than time_t is surprising to at least some programmers.

Unless something is using it from the private stubs table, the only callers of TclServiceIdle are Tcl_DoOneEvent and Tcl_ServiceAll, so that connection might be resolved by redrawing module boundaries.