Process exiting

[MarcFinns]

Hello,
Is it possible for a process that has completed its intended course of actions to disable and remove itself somehow, or do I need to implement yet another killer / garbage collector process?
thanks!

[wizard97]

Hi,
It is completely valid and safe to have a process call any of the:
disable()
enable()
destroy()
restart()

Routines from inside a service routine. In your case destroy() will be the appropriate one to remove itself completely

[MarcFinns]

Great! shall I assume that the objet itself will be gone / its memory released? thanks again!

[wizard97]

It is never recommend to use dynamic memory when programming microcontrollers. If you have created your process object in global space (as you likely have) it will exist on the stack and destroy will not free the memory because it is not dynamic to begin with.

That being said it is possible and supported to use processes that use dynamic memory. Instead of statically allocating your processes, you will have to call new Process.To free itself when it exits, at the very last line of cleanup, you can call delete this. Again, dynamic memory usage is not recommend.

[MarcFinns]

I know you are right, but I need to free up memory at some point after certain tasks have been carried out

[wizard97]

Cool, good luck. Also remember that disable(), enable, destroy(), etc... just sends a signal to the scheduler, and this call will not immediately call the associated routine.

[MarcFinns]

Hi Aaron, Just thought to share my project, made possible by your Process Scheduler… Thanks again. m https://youtu.be/iyFuKU8ZcuA From: Aaron Wisner <notifications@github.com> Reply-To: wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler <reply@reply.github.com> Date: Monday, 4 September 2017 at 19:23 To: wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler <ArduinoProcessScheduler@noreply.github.com> Cc: Marcello Fini <marcello@fini.org>, Author <author@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler] Process exiting (#8) Cool, good luck. Also remember that disable(), enable, destroy(), etc... just sends a signal to the scheduler, and this call will not immediately call the associated routine. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#8 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AXPSLe-74lTmI6CQODYe1yARPeZkTjnVks5sfDH_gaJpZM4PMCfq>.

[wizard97]

Congrats on finally finishing your project! I had a chance to watch your video, it's very impressive what you managed to acomplish. This is definitely one of the more complicated projects I have seen that have used this library.

Any chance you would be willing to share your code?

[MarcFinns]

Hi there, thanks. I kind of published it in the current state as I have no time to work on it anymore... The code was started in a semi-proper way, with an OO application framework, but I run into memory issues and I had to take shortcuts. I even had to make a custom memory mapping (2M code, 2M SPIFFS) to make it fit and retain the OTA capabilities. I would need a proper IDE to comment / cleanup / refactor but.. no time! If I see any interest and I find time I might do a sort of instructable.

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________________________________ From: Aaron Wisner <notifications@github.com> Sent: 22 January 2018 02:10 To: wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler Cc: marcello fini; Author Subject: Re: [wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler] Process exiting (#8) Congrats on finally finishing your project! I had a chance to watch your video, it's very impressive what you managed to acomplish. This is definitely one of the more complicated projects I have seen that have used this library. Any chance you would be willing to share your code? - You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#8 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AXPSLaTmZB8sDYW9eigLteNWTAHoQlPkks5tM-AbgaJpZM4PMCfq>.

[MarcFinns]

Forgot.. https://github.com/MarcFinns/AtmoScan

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________________________________ From: Aaron Wisner <notifications@github.com> Sent: 22 January 2018 02:10 To: wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler Cc: marcello fini; Author Subject: Re: [wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler] Process exiting (#8) Congrats on finally finishing your project! I had a chance to watch your video, it's very impressive what you managed to acomplish. This is definitely one of the more complicated projects I have seen that have used this library. Any chance you would be willing to share your code? - You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#8 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AXPSLaTmZB8sDYW9eigLteNWTAHoQlPkks5tM-AbgaJpZM4PMCfq>.

[GitMoDu]

@MarcFinns Try this plug-in for Visual Studio, it's free to use (1 pop-up a day) and integrates well enough to use VS functionalities (indentation, refactor, static analysis, etc..)

[MarcFinns]

Here it is! https://www.instructables.com/id/AtmoScan/ From: Aaron Wisner <notifications@github.com> Reply-To: wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler <reply@reply.github.com> Date: Monday, 22 January 2018 at 02:10 To: wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler <ArduinoProcessScheduler@noreply.github.com> Cc: Marcello Fini <marcello@fini.org>, Author <author@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler] Process exiting (#8) Congrats on finally finishing your project! I had a chance to watch your video, it's very impressive what you managed to acomplish. This is definitely one of the more complicated projects I have seen that have used this library. Any chance you would be willing to share your code? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#8 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AXPSLaTmZB8sDYW9eigLteNWTAHoQlPkks5tM-AbgaJpZM4PMCfq>.

[wizard97]

That is awesome, it looks like you are getting a lot of interest and comments in just a day after showing your project on hackaday. Very impressed what you managed to pull off on just an esp8266!

[MarcFinns]

It’s your scheduler...

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[wizard97]

Imagine what you could do with the ESP32!

[MarcFinns]

And some time… From: Aaron Wisner <notifications@github.com> Reply-To: wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler <reply@reply.github.com> Date: Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 20:20 To: wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler <ArduinoProcessScheduler@noreply.github.com> Cc: Marcello Fini <marcello@fini.org>, Mention <mention@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [wizard97/ArduinoProcessScheduler] Process exiting (#8) Imagine what you could do with the ESP32! — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#8 (comment)>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AXPSLTH-M8uq_xXirhC3kjMyOx0Ab_8Iks5tdCdpgaJpZM4PMCfq>.