alarm

signal.alarm replacement in Windows [Python]

I have a function that occasionally hangs. Normally I would set an alarm, but I'm in Windows and it's unavailable. Is there a simple way around this, or should I just create a thread that calls time.sleep()? Ended up going with a thread. Only trick was using os._exit instead of sys.exit import os import time import threading clas...

Accessing and setting iPhone's alarm / User alert on timed interval

Are there any way to access or set iphone's alarm? Im assuming if this isn't available, the only other way is push notification to alert the user on a timed interval. Any ideas? ...

How to use mock object mimicing a daily routine program?

My program has a daily routine, similar to an alarm clock event. Say, when it's 2pm(The time is the system time in my pc), do something for me. What I want to do is to speed up the testing period(I don't really want to wait 4 days looking at the daily routine and check errors.) I read on wiki of Mock object, the writer DID mention alar...

c alternative to signal() + alarm()

I'm building some FastCGI apps and it sort of bugs me that lighttpd doesn't kill them off after they've been idle, so I'm trying to have them close on their own. I tried using signal(SIGALRM, close); alarm(300); and having the close function execute exit(0), and that works almost well. The problem is the close function is being call...

How to set alarm using UIDatePicker?

Hi friends, I am developing an alarm clock application in iphone. I am not able to find how to set alarm which will trigger even if the app is not running. Please suggest me some code or tutorial to do it. Thanks in advance. ...

Android Emulator Alarm Clock Crashes

I am using the Android Emulator to debug my application, first off it is ridiculously slow, I mean like 15mins to load slow and on top of it, my Alarm Clock application fails? Am I the only one, or do other people experience this? Is there a fix or will I just have to go cook steaks while the emulator is booting? EDIT: I am running it ...

Alarms on the Google Android

I'm noticing a strange thing with Alarms on Android - they don't always wake up the device at the correct intervals. For example, if I set an alarm to start a service every 5 minutes (using RTC_WAKEUP, or similar), everything works fine until the device goes to sleep - after that, the alarm may not fire for minutes, or close to an hour. ...

How can I timeout a forked process that might hang?

Hi all, I am writing a Perl script that will write some inputs and send those inputs to an external program. There is a small but non-zero chance that this program will hang, and I want to time it out: my $pid = fork; if ($pid > 0){ eval{ local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "TIMEOUT!"}; alarm $num_secs_to_timeout; ...

how to integrate alarm in a rimlet or blackberry application?

i am developing an application for blackberry i want alarm to ring on a specific date please help me out how to do it. ...

need programs that illustrate use of settimer and alarm functions in GNU C

Can anyone illustrate the use of settimer or alarm function in gnu C , with some program examples ,please ? I have a program that continuously processes some data , and i need to set a timer / alarm that goes off every t seconds , in response to which , i need to store the processed data into a file. This file writing has to be asynchro...

How to handle an alarm triggered each day in android

Hi all, I want to set an alarm in my application which will be triggered each day. According to the doc, I have to set a one-time alarm, and in the BroadcastReceiver which will receive the alarm signal, reset the alarm for the day after. Is that correct ? My BroadcastReceiver handles well the wakelock and launch a service which releas...

BlackBerry - How to create alarm event?

I want to acces alarm. in my application i have successfully accessed calender and have set the appointment but how i can access alarm. please help me. following is my code public class Alarm { private Event event; public void myAlarm() { try { EventList eventList = (EventList)PIM.getInstance(). ...

Android alarm class

Hi, I have a class which sets an alarm but I need to set around 10 more of these alarms. Instead of duplicating classes, is there a way I can just make a new instance of the class and set the alarm time? Here's my code. import java.util.Calendar; import java.lang.String; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.AlarmManager;...

want to build an alarm app in iphone.

Hi, I want to build an alarm application for iphone. I want to ignore iphone device state and volume buttons state. I want to play sound anyhow in full volume and also want that user cant modify volume using iphone hardware buttons while sound is played. Does anybody know how to implement it? Please post the code here....... Thankx in A...

How can you "avoid" a SIGSEGV?

Hi, I'm writing a client-server app, in which the client has a determined memory address from the server side. If something goes wrong and the server needs to be reestarted the address the client has is not valid anymore. When using a function using that invalid info a SIGSEGV will be sent to the server as the address may not be its any...

How can I terminate a system command with alarm in Perl?

I am running the below code snippet on Windows. The server starts listening continuously after reading from client. I want to terminate this command after a time period. If I use alarm() function call within main.pl, then it terminates the whole Perl program (here main.pl), so I called this system command by placing it in a separate Pe...

How do I pass data from a BroadcastReceiver through to an Activity being started?

I've got an Android application which needs to be woken up sporadically throughout the day. To do this, I'm using the AlarmManager to set up a PendingIntent and have this trigger a BroadcastReceiver. This BroadcastReceiver then starts an Activity to bring the UI to the foreground. All of the above seems to work, in that the Activity la...

How to handle Alarm notification in Android?

Hi, I'm developing an media player application for Android, for which I need to handle any Alarm notification, and based on that I'll pause my playback. When the Alarm in snoozed or dismissed, I'll then resume the playback. I googled a lot for the Alarm handling, but what I found was the way to enable Alarm notifications through code,...

How should I clean up hung grandchild processes when an alarm trips in Perl?

I have a parallelized automation script which needs to call many other scripts, some of which hang because they (incorrectly) wait for standard input or wait around for various other things that aren't going to happen. That's not a big deal because I catch those with alarm. The trick is to shut down those hung grandchild processes when t...

getExtra from Intent launched from a pendingIntent

Hi. I am trying to make some alarms after the user selects something with a time from a list and create a notification for it at the given time. My problem is that the "showname" that a putExtra on my Intent cant be received at the broadcast receiver. It always get null value. This is the way I do it for most of my intents but I think th...