[PD-dev] Calling a method periodically

[Georg Holzmann]

Hallo!

Greg Surges schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there any way to have an external call a method periodically, without 
> being triggered?
> I'm thinking of a histogram with a decay function, where the values are 
> decremented every second (or other time value).

Clocks can be used to do that. Look e.g. at the code of the metro object 
in pd core.
You could also look at externals/grh/threadlib/callbacks.c, but I guess 
it's easier to understand it in the metro object code.

LG
Georg