Is there a timer function built into gtk? Or can you have a separate thread
trigger a gtk event on a timer?
On Jul 20, 2011, at 5:00 AM, maarten van damme wrote:
> The problem with Sean Kelly's and the message sending approach is that when
> using gtk I have to call Main.run(); and it pauses then untill the windows
> are all closed. when I place a loop before Main.run() I never get a window so
> If I want to use some kind of timer using threads I need to use shared?
> (correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> The glib.Timeout works like a charm, Thank you chris
>
> 2011/7/20 Sean Kelly <s...@invisibleduck.org>
> On Jul 19, 2011, at 3:19 AM, maarten van damme wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > for getting to know d a little bit I'm writing a simple pingpong game using
> > gtk.
> > for it to work I need to be able to do something every 0.1 seconds so I was
> > wondering if there was some kind of timer in the phobos library.
> > I've looked everywhere but couldn't find one. Is it missing and do i have
> > to write my own or have I overlooked it?
>
> void loop() {
> while( true ) {
> doWhatever();
> Thread.sleep(dur!"msecs"(100));
> }
> }
>
> spawn(&loop);
>
>
> Or you could have the spawned thread send a message every 100 milliseconds,
> etc.
>
