A small Class that helps with Timing Stuff

MinimumTimeTicker.java

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/**
 * This Class helps with many things, for example: you have a Timer that runs aith 50ms delay, but you only want a task in that timer to by at rate of 1000 and don't want to at more Timers.
 * <p/>
 * Created on 27.04.15.
 *
 * @author Sythelux Rikd
 */
public class MinimumTimeTicker {
    private long timeOut;
    private long lastReset;

    /**
     * You should give a Timeout, it would be silly to use it with <=0 of course you can do that
     *
     * @param timeOut should be >=0
     */
    public MinimumTimeTicker(long timeOut) {
        this.timeOut = timeOut;
    }

    /**
     * checks if a call is allowed the calculation is as follows: current Time - last Reset > time Out
     *
     * @return true, if you can continue, false if not.
     */
    public boolean isAllowed() {
        return System.currentTimeMillis() - lastReset > timeOut;
    }

    /**
     * resets the last Reset, so between the call and next next timeOut {@link #isAllowed} is true
     */
    public void reset() {
        lastReset = System.currentTimeMillis();
    }
}