From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T10:00:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19265] Re: Ruby/Tk: how to discard excess messages

You're right, Kero.  I tried that:  it doesn't work.

On Monday 06 August 2001 16:27, you wrote:
> > An auto-repeat key is sending additional messages while method is
> > still processing first message.  How can I discard the excess
> > messages?
>
> This does not work:
>
>    def do_it(widget)
>        widget.bind("Any-Key") {}
>        really_do_it()
>        widget.bind("Any-Key") { do_it(widget) }
>    end
>    widget.bind("Any-Key") { do_it(widget) }
>
> Because of the single thread queueing the events
> until after do_it() returns :(
>
> Perhaps you could look at the event timestamp?
>
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