Re: [Vala] timers with callbacks

["Levi Bard" <taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak gmail com>]

> The biggest difficulty I have is working out how the various functionalities
> have been made available to vala, the various functions seem to be scattered
> in different classes and namespaces. glib.vapi has class TimeoutSource,
> namespace Timeout, class Timer.

Here's what I'm using in my code:

using GLib;
uint timerID = Timeout.add(interval, callback);
// Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Source.remove(timerID);

However, I agree (and have mentioned before, iirc) that remove()
should either be moved to or have an equivalent in the Timeout class.

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