Re: help needed with applet.

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 06/26/01 AvA wrote:
[...]
> &monitor;
>
> main Gtk;
>
> exit(0);
>
> sub monitor{
>         MONITOR:{
>                 @a = stat("/var/log/httpd/access_log");
>                 $test = $a[7];
>
>                 while(1){
>                         @a = stat("/var/log/httpd/access_log");
>                         $test2 = $a[7];
>                                 if ($test2 != $test){
>                                 $button->children->set_text("changed");
>                                 redo MONITOR;
>                         }
>                 }
>         }
> }

monitor() is basically an infinite loop, you want to do a single check
in it and register the function to run every so often with
        Gtk->timeout_add($millisecs, \&monitor);

Note that the function must return 1 if you want it to be called
again.

lupus

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