RISC OS Pyromaniac ticker registrations

by gerph 2 years ago

macOS ◆ xterm-256color ◆ fish 944 views

RISC OS ticker registrations have never really been exposed to callers. There’s been neither an official interface to read them, nor an unofficial tool that did so. During debugging of some modules I noticed that the ticker events were being called a lot more often than I had expected, in the traces I was following. So to make it easier to see what had been registered at a given time, I added a new *-command to list the currently queued ticker events. This makes it easy to see some of what the system has in use.

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