Re: [orca-list] time...

[Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>]

Hi Will,

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Willie Walker wrote:

> Hi Daniel:
>
> See 
> http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/gobject-functions.html#function-gobject--timeout-add

Thanks, I will.

> The basic pattern is this:
>
> 1) add the timeout (in milliseconds):
>
>    gobject.timeout_add(1000, myMethod)
>
> 2) write your method:
>
>    def myMethod():
>        <<<output braille>>>
>        return True
>
> With the example above, myMethod will be called once a second.  No need to do 
> a loop in myMethod since the timeout is basically doing the timed loop for 
> you.

Makes sense, but will it be interupted on another key press?


Thanks for your help,

Cheers,

Daniel.