Re: Newbie Question

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 01:43, vinod wrote:
>  Hello,
>         I am new comer to the Glade and GTK-perl so that why i am not sure
> whether i am asking a foolish question, I have a small form which is shows
> two labels .

disclaimer: i am not a glade guru.  in fact, i only use it for
prototyping guis, and have never actually made a real project out of it,
but i know lots of people do.

> 1)  I want the label to be declared as a variable so that the value of the
> variable will be some string from a file in the proc directory, How will i
> take care of this when i use GLADE ?

glade lets you give a name to your widgets, and provides support
functions to let you look the widgets up by name to retrieve pointers to
them.  this is probably what you want to do.

> 2)  Also i want the form gets auto refreshed , so that the label content
> varies according to the file contents in the /proc directory. This should be
> be automatic, in the sense, i should not close the application and start
> again to get the refreshed valuse ?

gah.  this is getting into systems work.  you'll want either to put in a
timer that wakes up every so often and re-reads the file and refreshes
the gui, or use FAM or something similar to register a callback to your
function to do the same thing with less resources and finer granularity.


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