From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2010-04-05T10:27:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk delay

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Jesse Jurman <e.j.jurman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"}'

tick = lambda{
  puts "hi"
  Tk.after(5000, &tick)
}
Tk.after(5000, &tick)

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