Re: [lcd4linux] timer-Widget

[Steve-Kai V. <st...@vy...>]

Hi,

> You could accomplish this with a combination of the update
> command and the file::readline expression recently added to
> CVS.  For the line(s) that need to display dynamic
> information, setup a script to write that information to a
> file when the state changes (incoming call), and then have
> the file::readline pull that information periodically (like
> 100 ms)
>
> Widget dynamicline1 {
>     class 'Text'
>     expression
> file::readline('/tmp/somefile_updated_on_call_state_change',1) update 100
> }
>

jup I have done this by now, but 2 Problems:
1. it takes extra CPU for creating the file (which has to be done erver xxx 
Seconds to be uptodate) and you can not change the class i.E from text -> bar 

> A more elegant solution would be to allow dynamic Layout
> changes triggered by timers and other plugin specific
> callbacks, but that isn't implemented yet.

yes this would be fine :-)

Steve