soc.robot
Class SOCRobotPinger

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      soc.robot.SOCRobotPinger

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class SOCRobotPinger

extends java.lang.Thread

Pings the robots so that they can have a sense of time

Author:

Robert S Thomas

Field Summary

(package private) boolean	alive
(package private) CappedQueue	messageQueue
(package private) SOCGameTextMsg	ping
(package private) java.lang.String	robotNickname

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

SOCRobotPinger(CappedQueue q, java.lang.String nickname)
Create a robot pinger

Method Summary

void	run() DOCUMENT ME!
void	stopPinger() DOCUMENT ME!

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getContextClassLoader, getName, getPriority, getThreadGroup, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setName, setPriority, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

messageQueue

CappedQueue messageQueue

ping

SOCGameTextMsg ping

alive

boolean alive

robotNickname

java.lang.String robotNickname

Constructor Detail

SOCRobotPinger

public SOCRobotPinger(CappedQueue q,
                      java.lang.String nickname)

Create a robot pinger

Parameters:

q - the robot brain's message queue

nickname - the robot's nickname, for debug thread naming

Method Detail

run

public void run()

DOCUMENT ME!

stopPinger

public void stopPinger()

DOCUMENT ME!