Hi all,

I'm trying to use POE's alarm/delay methods, but I would like to have it call an object method. The examples provided look like this:

  POE::Session->create(
    inline_states => {
      _start => sub {
        $_[KERNEL]->alarm( tick => time() + 1, 0 );
      },
      tick => sub {
        print "tick $_[ARG0]\n";
        $_[KERNEL]->alarm( tock => time() + 1, $_[ARG0] + 1 );
      },
      tock => sub {
        print "tock $_[ARG0]\n";
        $_[KERNEL]->alarm( tick => time() + 1, $_[ARG0] + 1 );
      },
    }
  );

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So here the methods called are 'tick' and 'tock', and they are delayed 1 second to create an example clock. In my method I have an object $self, so I'm trying to do something more like this...

$_[KERNEL]->alarm( $self->method => time() + 5 );

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.. to wait 5 seconds before calling $self->method(). I've tried different variants using references to the object method and such, but nothing seems to work properly.

Does anyone know how to do this or can anyone provide an alternative way to delay a method call while still allowing the application to go about its business (allow POE to handle events, etc)?

In reply to Object Methods with POE::Kernel's alarm? by dynis

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