Re: libwnck doesn't work well in gtk-perl?

[Shaya Potter <spotter cs columbia edu>]

zentara wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:17:16 -0400
> Shaya Potter <spotter cs columbia edu> wrote:
>
> I don't know if this is the best fix, but your script will work if you update
> the event-loop each cycle.  By the way, using a while loop and sleep
> in a gui, is BAD BAD BAD. Use a timer instead to call the sub every second.

this isn't a gui program, all I want is wnck for window names to do text 
mode processing on them, but now I understand why it wsn't working, no 
gtk main loop.


> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > use strict;
> > use Gtk2;
> > use Gnome2::Wnck;
> > Gtk2->init();
> >
> > while (1) {
> >         sleep 1;
>
> Gtk2->main_iteration while Gtk2->events_pending;
>
> >         my $screen = Gnome2::Wnck::Screen->get(0);
> >         $screen->force_update();
> >
> >         my @windows_list = $screen->get_windows();
> >
> >         foreach my $window (@windows_list) {
> >                 my $name = $window->get_name();
> >                 print "name = $name\n";
> >         }
> >
> > }
>
> zentara