Timer in Python?

Hello...a colleague is wondering how to do something in Python that I normally do in VB, which is to create a variable whose value persists in conjunction with an attached timer. A simple example would be a timer-related counter, that gets reset with a boolean but accumulates over time. Does anyone know to achieve the equivalent of something like this in Python:

Private Sub RunScript(ByVal R As Boolean, ByRef A As Object)

If R = True Then
Counter = 0
End If

Counter += 1

A = Counter

End Sub

'<Custom additional code>

Dim Counter As Int32

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Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on October 3, 2013 at 3:57am

Hello David,

Take a look at this discussion. I think Anders and myself have covered pretty much most of the functionality existing there.

ps. nice pics from Berlin on facebook.

Best,

Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on October 3, 2013 at 4:43am

Thanks Marios...didn't see this one when I searched the site. And double thanks...yes, the Symposium was fantastic. Tons of ideas and inspiration from people doing amazing things!

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on October 3, 2013 at 5:10am

Nice!

Unfortunately I didn't have time to attend, next year probably.

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on October 3, 2013 at 6:15am

I guess this officially makes it 1-0 to you Marios ;)

Anyhow, the scriptcontext.sticky is really useful for saving, updating and passing around data within one or more Python components, one or more GH definitions or even between GH and Rhino. Attached a fun little "sketching" example, note that there is absolutely no reason to have two components in this case..

Attachments:

GHPythonDrawMousePosition.gh, 11 KB

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on October 4, 2013 at 3:22am

heheheh!

Nope the score is still nil. I think that the clearest rule of our little game is to beat the other by a few seconds or minutes. Seeing something after a long time when the other has already answered doesn't meet this criterion.

either way I didn't actually provide a solution rather than referencing an old thread.

So let call it a tie.

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on October 4, 2013 at 3:32am

Agreed, can't believe I already forgot the rules ;)

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on October 3, 2013 at 4:09am

Well, my question is a bit related to this discussion, so I will post it here.

Do you guys know why my script runs quite slow even with timer set to 1ms, but whenever I rotate the camera in the Rhino viewport, script starts to run really fast and fluently ? I was suspecting nvidia gfx ,but I've turned it off (tried all options) and the problem still remains. I even tried without timer (if run = true then expiresolution), but it behaves the same as with timer.... Also, I've switched to integrated gfx and still the same. It's quite frustrating, I can see that for instance in Daniel Piker's videos kangaroo runs in real time, and same def is really sloppy on my pc.

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on October 3, 2013 at 4:27am

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/refresh-rate-problem

In this video you can see the difference.. when I right-click the viewport, circles start to move much faster (the video is not that fluent cause of shitty desktop recorder).

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 3, 2013 at 4:28am

The redraw of Rhino viewports can cause a significant delay in any iterative cycle. However while viewports are being rotated or zoomed or panned, Rhino switches to a faster display algorithm which is less accurate. This may account for what you are seeing.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on October 3, 2013 at 4:32am

Ha ! Thanks. Still - is there a way to put rhino in this state from grasshopper code? Maybe even with a bit cheating ?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 3, 2013 at 6:29am

Yeah I'm going to look into that for GH2.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on October 3, 2013 at 5:09am

Well didn't see that coming. Makes perfect sense.