Instead of polling once in the scheduler loop, have a separate thread poll more often, keeping the sky condition droplist up to date and popping balloons on changes.

 

  
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Author
  
rbdenny
 
 

  
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svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/astro/scheduler
 
 

  
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95
 
 

  
Affected files
  
/trunk/Help/RelNotes.htm (Modified)
/trunk/Scheduler/Engine.cs (Modified)

 
 

  
Check-in comment
  
Poll sky condition at all places where decisions are made based on same. Also fixes GEM:368.
GEM:367

 

Separate thread is overkill. The value shown in the scheduler's selector is the value that the scheduler is currently using (or has just used) not the "live" value. This is fine. Simply add a couple of more polls for sky condition just before decisions that depend on same, and which are outside the schedule pass (in which Sky Condition is already polled).