I would like to change my ticker interval dynamically.
I've written down an example to show you how I did. My use case is something else than an "accelerometer" but I hope that it gives you an idea.
http://play.golang.org/p/6ANFnoE6pA
package main
import (
"time"
"log"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
interval := float64(1000)
ticker := time.NewTicker(time.Duration(interval) * time.Millisecond)
go func(){
counter := 1.0
for range ticker.C {
log.Println("ticker accelerating to " + fmt.Sprint(interval/counter) + " ms")
ticker = time.NewTicker(time.Duration(interval/counter) * time.Millisecond)
counter++
}
log.Println("stopped")
}()
time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
log.Println("stopping ticker")
ticker.Stop()
}
What is wrong is that the ticker will always "tick" every seconds and it doesn't accelerate... Any idea?
Following the answer to @fzerorubigd but a little more complete.
As said before, we can't use the range
for this case, because the range
loop caches the variable to be lopped and then it can't be overwritten (example here: http://play.golang.org/p/yZvrgURz4o )
Then, we should use a for
-select
combination loop. Hereafter the working solution:
http://play.golang.org/p/3uJrAIhnTQ
package main
import (
"time"
"log"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
start_interval := float64(1000)
quit := make(chan bool)
go func(){
ticker := time.NewTicker(time.Duration(start_interval) * time.Millisecond)
counter := 1.0
for {
select {
case <-ticker.C:
log.Println("ticker accelerating to " + fmt.Sprint(start_interval/counter) + " ms")
ticker.Stop()
ticker = time.NewTicker(time.Duration(start_interval/counter) * time.Millisecond)
counter++
case <-quit:
ticker.Stop()
log.Println("..ticker stopped!")
return
}
}
}()
time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
log.Println("stopping ticker...")
quit<-true
time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond) // just to see quit messages
}