On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:43:53 -0400 (EDT) "muppet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Okay, several comments: > >- Why are you reinventing Gtk2::Dialog? >- Why are you reinventing Gtk2::ColorSelection? >- Why are you reinventing Gtk2::ColorSelectionDialog? >- Why are you using a canvas to get colored text? For the rgba? Can a regular window have an rgba background? > >If what you want is something that returns you a color string after user >interaction, you can have that with a trivial wrapper function in about ten >lines. Well the idea is not just for color. I'm looking for a general purpose popup that returns whatever I want, instead of integers(like a dialog). I might want a textbox, or entries, etc. > >The trick is the recursive main loop, as you implemented in >non_blocking_delay(). gtk_dialog_run() uses that same pattern to wait for the >response signal on the dialog object. > > >> In Perl/Tk, there is a waitVariable method, that will wait at that >> point( non-blocking) until a variable changed. This is an attempt to >> simulate that behavior. >> Is this the best way to do this? Does Glib have something similar >> to waitVariable? > >Glib does not, but somebody posted to this very list rather a long time ago an >interesting experiment with tie() that got similar effects. > > >> Anyways, I would appreciate any improvements. The way it works, >> is during the Show() sub, the window will wait until a button >> is pressed, then return a hex string if the button was Ok. >> Bad or Good? :-) > >What you've done is Bad. You're using a recursive main loop to block control >flow without blocking the main loop --- that part is okay. But don't use a >timer to wait for user interaction in your recursive main loop; connect >directly to the signal, even if you have to create your own signal to >decouple. Hmmm, I don't get that part... I'll have to thinks. Ouch !! Thanks zentara -- I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. http://zentara.net/CandyGram_for_Mongo.html _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
