Re: Xmms::Remote

[Joern Reder <joern netcologne de>]

AvA wrote:

> I did it with a Gtk->timeout_add(100 ,\&monitor);
>
> sub monitor {
> $test = $remote->get_playlist_title;
> $entry->set_text("$test");
> }
>
> One would expect that this works, but it doesn't.
> So I added a print"" to the subroutine:
>
> sub monitor {
> $test = $remote->get_playlist_title;
> $entry->set_text("$test");
> print "";
> }
>
> and all works fine.

That's because print() returns true, and $entry->set_text() obviously 
returns false. A timeout callback has to return true, otherwise the 
timeout will be disabled.

Regards,

Joern

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