[slscripters] Status of timer during sim restart

[Fred Allandale]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.  While none directly answered my original question about what timers do during sim restarts, a number of suggestions gave me ideas for workarounds.  Thanks again for the help.

 

-Fred Allandale

 

> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:47:20 -0600

> From: Fred Allandale <Fred_Al...@msn.com>

> Subject: [slscripters] Status of timer during sim restart

> 

> I am trying to make a script auto-recover from a sim restart. ?I have a

> 'changed' event that looks for CHANGED_REGION_START and runs some recovery

> code, but it does not appear to be triggering after a restart. ?I also have

> a 30 second timer running. ?If the 'timer' event ever triggers, the script

> goes to a different state (called 'faulted') that does not have a 'changed'

> event. The timer is used to trap failed responses from other scripts and/or

> dataserver events and is normally restarted every few seconds, so it never

> comes close to timing out during normal operation. ?After a restart, however

> the 'timer' event appears to be triggering before the 'changed' event,

> sending the script into the 'faulted' state instead of executing the

> recovery code. I would have expected the timer to freeze during the sim down

> time so the 'changed' event would trigger before the timer would time out.

> 

> Does anyone have any insight into what happens to a running timer during the

> down time when a sim is restarting, if that down time is longer than the

> timer setting? ?Will the 'timer' event be triggered immediately upon restart

> or will the timer simply pick up timing where it left off?