From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T03:29:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Updating GUIs

Hello Joe,

JVD> Hi,

JVD> I'm still fairly new to writing GUIs.  A common approach to me is to
JVD> write some model classes that have a function called "update".  That
JVD> function should get called a few times a second, and then the GUI
JVD> should get updated reflecting those changes.

JVD> What's the best way to do this?  Should I have a Ruby thread that
JVD> calls the update function, sleeps for 0.2 seconds, and then loops?
JVD> How should the GUI get notified of those changes?

Only update/invalidate when you must update and then update/invalidate the
smallest possible rectangle. Thats the normal rule for writing GUI's


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