event based timer

[Sean Kelly]

Is there a timer function built into gtk?  Or can you have a separate thread trigger a gtk event on a timer?

On Jul 20, 2011, at 5:00 AM, maarten van damme wrote:

> The problem with Sean Kelly's and the message sending approach is that when using gtk I have to call Main.run(); and it pauses then untill the windows are all closed. when I place a loop before Main.run() I never get a window so If I want to use some kind of timer using threads I need to use shared? (correct me if I'm wrong)
> 
> The glib.Timeout works like a charm, Thank you chris
> 
> 2011/7/20 Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>
> On Jul 19, 2011, at 3:19 AM, maarten van damme wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > for getting to know d a little bit I'm writing a simple pingpong game using gtk.
> > for it to work I need to be able to do something every 0.1 seconds so I was wondering if there was some kind of timer in the phobos library.
> > I've looked everywhere but couldn't find one. Is it missing and do i have to write my own or have I overlooked it?
> 
> void loop() {
>    while( true ) {
>        doWhatever();
>        Thread.sleep(dur!"msecs"(100));
>    }
> }
> 
> spawn(&loop);
> 
> 
> Or you could have the spawned thread send a message every 100 milliseconds, etc.
>