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Reusable deferred action execution mechanism

published 181 days, 6 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by

http://byteflux.myopenid.com/ 182 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes ago

There are situations in which you need to do some processing when an event fires but you don’t want to do it every time if the event happens in a very short time interval. Such a situation can occur for example when handling MouseMove events – you want to do the processing when the mouse stops for a certain amount of time, but not for every intermediate position of the mouse.