Re: date/time in statusbar

[Jason Burchfield <jason burchfield cas-inc com>]

Foster, Gareth wrote:

> Maybe you need to use a Glibmm timeout/callback? It goes something like ...
>
> Glib::timeout_signal.connect(sigc::memfunc(*this, &MainPage::checkTime),
> 1000);
>
> Look up the Glibmm docs on http://gtkmm.org for the full documentation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gaz
>
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anca Mitrica [mailto:ancamitrica yahoo com] 
> > Sent: 11 July 2005 13:59
> > To: gtkmm-list gnome org
> > Subject: date/time in statusbar
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am working on an Gtkmm application that demands the
> > current date/time in  the application statusbar. I am
> > able to take the current time and put it in the
> > statusbar, but when I'm trying to display the current
> > time dynamically into the status bar, i get a
> > segmentation fault.
> >
> > I am "using g_timeout_add" function to call at each
> > second the function that put time in the status bar.
> > Here is the code :
> >
> > gboolean MainPage::checkTime(void){
> >
> > time_t timp;
> > time(&timp);
> > Glib::ustring strtime(ctime(&timp));
> > // cout<<strtime<<endl;
> >
> > status.statusBar->pop();
> >  Gtk::Label *timeLabel = new Gtk::Label(strtime);
> >  status.statusBar->pack_end(*timeLabel,
> > Gtk::PACK_SHRINK);
> > status.statusBar->push(strtime);
> >
> > return true;
> >
> > }
> >
> > ..............................................
> > g_timeout_add(1000,(GSourceFunc)checkTime(),NULL);
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my code or give
> > me an idea how to do this?
> >
> > Thank you .
> >    Anka 
> >
> >
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Your problem could be because the time function returns a string with a 
'\n' character at the end.  You may need to remove it.


Jason

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