Job scheduling

[kylekellogg]

Job Scheduling

Job scheduling will be broken down into the following pieces:

1. Job data object
2. An ongoing job queue
3. Progress tracking for each job in job queue

   Job Data Object

This will represent a single job. Each job must have (at least) the following items:

• Associated plot/building
• Begin DateTime (game time corrected)
• Projected end DateTime (game time corrected)
• Progress float

When scheduling a job you will:

1. Create the Job Data Object
2. Assign it the appropriate plot/building
3. Assign it the game time corrected DateTime.Now
4. Assign it the game time corrected Begin DateTime + TimeSpan for job as the Projected end DateTime
5. Assign it's progress level a value of 0f

   Ongoing Job Queue

For every job in the job queue, which itself will be a mutable List, you must do the following:

• (Outside of loop) store game time corrected DateTime.Now
• Compare current game time to game corrected Projected end DateTime of Job using DateTime.CompareTo
• If current game time is ≤ 0 when compared to game corrected Projected end DateTime of Job, then remove Job from Job Queue and flag it as completed

  Progress Tracking for Each Job in Job Queue

Get progress from the difference of (current game time - Begin DateTime for Job) and (game time corrected Projected end DateTime for Job - Begin DateTime for Job) via TotalDays or TotalHours method of corresponding TimeSpans.

This will not be necessary for already completed Jobs.

Reference

• MSDN DateTime
• MSDN TimeSpan

[kylekellogg]

Updated to remove completion flag from Job Data Object