timer component 1 The timer component The timer [component] controls the simulation speed by sending a "tick" signal to the server regularily. The timer component defines a channelserver (timeragentserver), which is currently not used, and a channelclient (timerserverclient) used to connect to the server. The custom configuration tags for server components are __steplength, autostart__ and __syncmode__. Steplength defines the simulation speed in microseconds. You can change this, just make sure not to make the step length too small (you should not make a step shorter than the time needed for the system to calculate it.) Please leave autostart at "true" and syncmode at "false". So, a timer definition typically looks like this: {code:xml} <component id="timer"> <class> org.micropsi.comp.timer.TimerComponent </class> <data> <steplength> 100 </steplength> <autostart> true </autostart> <syncmode> false </syncmode> <servers> <server id="s1"> <type> 0 </type> <name> timeragentserver </name> </server> </servers> <clients> <client id="c1"> <type> 0 </type> <name> timerserverclient </name> <connect-to> servertimerserver </connect-to> <usethreadpool> false </usethreadpool> </client> </clients> </data> </component> {code} 2005-04-10 22:53:59.697 2005-04-10 22:50:56.565