[Specto-devel] the main watch class

[wout c. <wou...@sc...>]

It's time that we start thinking about the main functionalities from the 
watch class
so we can actually start working on it.

a main watch has a:
-unique name
-interval timer / watch (time between updates)
-...?

the specific  options for a type of watch are set in the subclass.

the main watch class has a function for:
-returning a message when a watch is updated
-setting/getting a name for a watch
-setting/getting the interval period
-calling the subclass when the watch has to be checked for updates
-...?

so it would look something like this (in pseudo):

/if timer == interval
    call subclass

       (subclass
             check_update
             if updated:
                  return updated = True
             else:
                   return updated = False
        end subclass)

    if updated == True:
          return "Watch updated"/

This doesn't look difficult, does it?

some questions about the code that is allready in watch.py:

/    def __init__(self, refresh= float(5.0)):
        self.refresh_ = refresh
        self.timer = Timer(float(0.1), self.update)
        self.timer.start()/
what is "self.update"? is it the interval between updates for a watch? 
and why would you use refresh = float(5.0), isn't that something the 
user has to set?

And when i wan't to create an object from the module i get this error:
/>>> import specto.watch
 >>> t = specto.watch()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
 >>>

/How can we solve this?

these are my thoughts about the main watch class, feel free to change it!

Wout