From: Jesse Jurman <e.j.jurman@...>
Date: 2010-04-05T09:52:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk delay

Michael Fellinger wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Jesse Jurman <e.j.jurman@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Jesse Jurman wrote:
>>
>>> Right now I need a means to delay the next song for the number of
>>> seconds that the current song is playing.
>>
>> I'm using the Snack audio toolkit for ruby, so I already know how long
>> the song is... I don't need to constantly check if the song is
>> playing... I just need to have a block of code run after a set number of
>> seconds.
> 
> In stdlib Tk:
> ruby -rtk -e 'Tk.after(5000){ puts "hi" }; Tk.mainloop'
> 
> In ffi-tk:
> ruby -rffi-tk -e 'Tk::After.ms(5000){ puts "hi" }; Tk.mainloop'

Thanks, this works... but I can't get it to loop! I'm going to try using 
this with a TkTimer widget... but is there perchance a loop option in 
this widget as well? Something like TkTimer's loop?
i.e. 'TkTimer.start(5000, -1){puts "hi"}'
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