cg-timer-interval

Arguments: configuration

The internal built-in timer (returned by cg-timer) uses a preset interval for most tasks. This function returns (or sets with setf) that interval. The initial value of the interval is 500 (milliseconds).

This value could be modified by an application to change the quickness with which Common Graphics does a few things such as generating a mouse-out event when the mouse cursor goes outside of any lisp window, and the speed with which the IDE reports the current package and tracing/profiling flags at the right side of the IDE menubar window. Smaller values will make these actions faster, but may bog down other processing if too frequent. cg-timer-interval is a property of the configuration class. The current configuration is the value of

(configuration *system*)

See cg-timers.htm for more information on timers.

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