Re: [lcd4linux] timer-Widget

[C. M. <cm...@fr...>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:26:03AM +0200, Steve-Kai Vyska waxed:
> 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 

Writing and reading a one line file is taking up significant CPU ?
Are you running lcd4linux on a wristwatch ?


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Chris Maj
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