package com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.interfaces;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Abilities.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Areas.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Behaviors.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.CharClasses.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Commands.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Common.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Exits.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Items.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Locales.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.MOBS.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Races.interfaces.*;
/*
Copyright 2002-2010 Bo Zimmerman
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
*/
/**
* This class represents a thread, consisting of a group of Tickable objects receiving periodic calls
* to their tick(Tickable,int) methods by this thread object
* @see Tickable
* @see Tickable#tick(Tickable, int)
* @author Bo Zimmerman
*
*/
public interface TickableGroup
{
/** the maximum number of ticking objects which can be handled by a single thread */
public final static int MAX_TICK_CLIENTS=128;
/**
* Returns the current or last Tickable object which this thread made a tick(Tickable,int) method
* call to.
* @see Tickable
* @see Tickable#tick(Tickable, int)
* @return the Tickable object last accessed
*/
public Tickable lastTicked();
}
