How to run a lisp at regular intervals

[richie_hodgson]

Hi I am looking for a way to run a lisp at regular intervals, this may be a .net thing or something but I was wondering if it could be done in lisp somehow. I haven't found anything convincing yet on the web.

[dbroad]

One possibility would be to add a command reactor. Save the value of one of the variables that deal with date or time (TDSUSRTIMER, DATE, CDATE) in the reactor.  Then in the callback, check the current value of the variable and compare it with the saved value.  If the value exceeds the interval, then save the new current time and perform the tasks.  Reactors have limitations though as to what they are allowed to do.

[richie_hodgson · Accepted solution]

Hi thanks for that, it looks promising but I need to do some research about reactors, will think about htat one.

Regards

Richie