Re: [Vala] timers with callbacks

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 19:59 +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> I've grep'd all my vapi files and can't find any timer classes that 
> provide callbacks, can anyone help?
> I've seen the example at: http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial
> but O'm just running Gtk.main, not making a loop, so I don't have 
> anything to time.attach to.

Gtk.main uses a mainloop, so you can use something as follows:

        Timeout.add (interval, callback);

> I've also modified the vala glade demo to make connect_signals more 
> reasonable:
>
>         if (!module.symbol ("glade_phone_ui_" + handler_name, out sym) 
> && !module.symbol (handler_name, out sym)) {
>
> Of course "glade_phone_ui" is my namespace hierachy, but is there a 
> magical preprocessor token to pull out the current namespace hierachy 
> prefix to save me hard wiring it? That would be a reasonable change to 
> the glade example.

No, that's not possible at the moment. It would be nice if we find a
convenient solution for this - I'd focus on GtkBuilder instead of Glade,
though.

> Finally, (cos I'm an old Delphi nut) I want to extend the 
> connect_signals stuff to connect more than signals, but also widget 
> names, so I'll be pulling back all widget names, and then looking for 
> exported symbols in a similar manner; however I guess I should be doing 
> some RTTI stuff to make sure the symbol I'm about to populate is of the 
> right types. Any clues?? I'll do it typeless for now.
>
>
> I'm annoyed that this C syntax isn't supported:
>         if (this.module = Module.open (null, ModuleFlags.BIND_LAZY)) {

That's by design, if expects a boolean condition and this.module is
certainly not a boolean.

> However this doesn't work either:
>         if ((this.module = Module.open (null, 
> ModuleFlags.BIND_LAZY))!=NULL) {
>
> I've not managed to find the equivalent for NULL checking yet. (This was 
> to save re-opening module for every attached signal).

`NULL' in C is `null' in Vala

Jürg
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