Re: [java-gnome-hackers] Timer problems

[Tom B. <Tom...@Su...>]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:22, Mark Howard wrote:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at org.gnu.gtk.Gtk.gtk_main(Gtk.java:native)
>         at org.gnu.gtk.Gtk.main(Gtk.java:54)
>         at com.tildemh.debbuggtk.BugWatcher.main(BugWatcher.java:454)
> 
> Any ideas why this is happening? 

No, but I'll look into it.  I had almost identical code in my VPN
client, but removed it when hitting the same bug.  Still, that should
work.

> Also, I think this method would be added to the main code - where should
> it go? 

I asked that question last month without any responses.  My suggestion
was to create a GLib.java which held untyped GLib routines, much as
Gtk.java and Gnome.java do.  If no one has objections, that's where I'll
put it.

BTW, I don't think Timer is the right way to implement invokeLater
(although I used the same approach).  My limited understanding of GLib
suggests that it's worth the extra work to support creating a new event
source (perhaps using g_main_context_add_poll()).  My suspicion is that
we'll be needing to define other event types over time.

Tom