How to queue and call actual methods (rather than immediately eval) in java?
- by alleywayjack
There are a list of tasks that are time sensitive (but "time" in this case is arbitrary to what another program tells me - it's more like "ticks" rather than time). However, I do NOT want said methods to evaluate immediately. I want one to execute after the other finished. I'm using a linked list for my queue, but I'm not really sure how/if I can access the actual methods in a class without evaluating them immediate.
The code would look something like...
LinkedList<Method> l = new LinkedList<Method>();
l.add( this.move(4) );
l.add( this.read() );
l.removeFirst().call();
//wait 80 ticks
l.removeFirst().call();
move(4) would execute immediately, then 80 ticks later, I would remove it from the list and call this.read() which would then be executed.
I'm assuming this has to do with the reflection classes, and I've poked around a bit, but I can't seem to get anything to work, or do what I want. If only I could use pointers...
