Hulloh, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 06:35:03PM +0300, John Mpanos wrote: > After some digging around i figured what to do to draw text in the > status area, so i wrote a simple clock using threads. I can't > understand though why the clock doesn't get updated sometimes even > though i call drawbar() directly from the thread run method... > Any help would be appreciated, and also how could i do the same > without using threads? so, why exactly aren't you using an external program feeding in data? (The shell repeatedly calling date might be slow, but a .c printing the date through the pipe won't be significantly slower...)
Mate
