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CLAP: Dont Run Blind TImers #905

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mfisher31 opened this issue Feb 16, 2025 · 0 comments

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mfisher31 commented Feb 16, 2025

From discord:

so here's the thing

the timer support exists basically for linux. Most plugins on windows and macos just know they are on the UI thread and use CFTimer and some such and so won't register a timer with you.

Although some hosts do support the timer extension on mac and win, most plugins wont use it. On linux where the concept of 'main thread' is more nebulous because of X and Wayland, we delegate to the host to be able to schedule on the plugin ui thread (and similarly to respond to event handles with the posix fd extension)

If the plugin doesn't call register timer it doesn't expect regular timer callbacks. It will call request callback if it wants a single callback (edited)

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mfisher31 added this to Element 1.0.x

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