[Glade-users] Refresh information automatically

[damon karuna uklinux net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 20:19, Sig Meneses wrote:
> Hi, i Have a  question , mm im using glade, and im doing an aplication that 
> needs to refresh every period fo time for example every 10 seconds. but i 
> dont now how to dothat, now im using a botton that when i want to execute 
> tha aplication i just push it. But i want to eliminate that , i dont know if 
> i just need to hide the botton and put a kind of timer... mmm but i dont 
> know how..

You can set up a timer with g_timeout_add(). See
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html#g-timeout-add

> The kind of information that i need to refresh is in a text view.. so other 
> quiestion is, how can i clear the textview????

You can use gtk_text_buffer_set_text()
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkTextBuffer.html#gtk-text-buffer-set-text

Damon