Re: Replace works now, mybad! But what about sleep...

[why the lucky stiff]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:56:14PM -0700, Timothy McDowell wrote:
> Whenever I put the command 'sleep' into my code, it 'sleeps' the whole
> Shoes app before start, so...

I should replace sleep with a one-shot timer.  Sleep doesn't work
with Shoes apps because the GUI is basically in the main thread.

Here's a possible way to use a thread to do the sleep:

  @anim = animate(6) do
      hi.replace variable1.to_s
      variable1 = variable1 + 1
      if variable1 > 20
          hi.replace "Too high! Starting over..."
          variable1 = 1
          @anim.stop
          Thread.start do
            sleep 5
            @anim.start
          end
      end
  end

_why