Re: [dbus-cplusplus-devel] dispatcher timeout

[Jason G. <jgl...@go...>]

You might try using g_timeout_add_seconds.  We have used it with dbus-c++.

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=cashew.git;a=blob;f=src/device.cc;h=b5ac6f5103d8a1c05e82b0f6633d7bd6b965b6a0;hb=HEAD

<http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=cashew.git;a=blob;f=src/device.cc;h=b5ac6f5103d8a1c05e82b0f6633d7bd6b965b6a0;hb=HEAD>
-Jason


On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Andreas Volz <li...@br...> wrote:

> Am Fri, 3 Dec 2010 16:23:08 -0700 schrieb Theodore A. Roth:
>
> > I've been trying to figure out how to register a timeout callback with
> > the dispatcher so that my callback function will be invoked
> > periodically by the dispatcher main loop. The
> > BusDispatcher::add_timeout() method seems to take an internal timeout
> > object as an argument which leads me to believe that I can't use that.
> >
> > I'm still in the learning dbus-c++ phase and my app is a rather simple
> > server based on the echo demo, but I've stripped it down to only a
> > Hello method and a single signal. My goal is to invoked the signal in
> > the timeout.
> >
> > None of the examples in the source repo show how to do what I what,
> > and google hasn't been too helpful. If someone has a link to an
> > example of this, I would be most appreciative.
>
> Hello Ted,
>
> yes, BusDispatcher::add_timeout() is for another reason. To be honest I
> never needed such an feature. Are you sure the C backend of DBus
> provides such a feature? Could you name a function?
>
> I would solve this by writing an interface to a DBus service that
> provides you with configurable callbacks. :-)
>
> regards
>        Andreas
>
>
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