Re: [E-devel] Epplet woes

[Chris b. R. <ch...@da...>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:00:39PM -0600, Brian Mattern muttered...
: I haven't completed the timer stuff, but what is there should work.
: First of all, make sure clock_update takes (object data, number val) as
: its arguments. This is backwards from normal e timers, but for some
: reason ferite would segfault if i had a non-object first parameter.
: (Know anything about this boris? Maybe i'm just doing things wrong...)

Hmmm, I will look into it - there is no reason why it shouldn't work.

: The timers are a one time thing. It waits the specified time (at least,
: sometimes a bit more) and then calls the function. In order to continue
: you would have to call it again from within the function.
: 
: I used the val parameter, as that is what raster used in the e timers.
: It is just a number that can be used to do different things. For
: instance, call it the first time with val = 0, do certain things the
: first time only,  and then incrememnt it each time through  and use that to
: know how far along you are. For alot of applications, its unecessary.
: 
: An example snippet from an xmms epplet. this updates the title of a song:
: 
: -----------------------------------------------------
: function testTimer(object data, number val)
: {
:   string ti;
:   if (remote.getSession() != -1)
:   {
:     ti = remote.getSongTitle();
:     data.setText(ti);
:   }
:   epp.addTimer("test", 0.5, "testTimer", 0, data);
: }
: 
: ---- alot of stuff here to set up the epplet, etc -----
: 
: epp.addTimer("test", 0.5, "testTimer", 0, title);
: ---------------------------------------------------
: 
: this then calls testTimer every .5 seconds, passing along an EvasObject
: that is a text object.
: 
: Hope this helps. When everything is complete, there will be a nice API
: document to go along with it. I'll start commenting the ferite code a
: bit more for now.

This should be nicer once 0.99.5 is released I have re-worked the module
system in ferite cvs [hence why it shouldn't be used yet] and the code for
modules is much nicer :) No more %{ %} - ferite and builder are much cleverer
:)

Regards,

Chris
-- 
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Chris Ross   |      ch...@da... | ct...@fe...        |
|              | http://www.darkrock.co.uk | http://www.ferite.org |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
"Change is inevitable -- except from a vending machine."