[mcclim-devel] Problems in reading with :timeout

[Andy Hefner]

AFAIK, these basically don't work right now. I briefly hacked on these
(toward the goal of fixing scheduled event delivery), and I know there
are some obvious things that need to be changed in the SBCL support
files. I'll take a look at what I've done (if I can find it..) and see
if anything is commitable. I don't know the status of support on the
other lisps.

On 5/2/05, Tomi K Neste <tomi.neste at netikka.fi> wrote:
> I'm having some newb confusion about the timeout value in stream input
> functions, (read-gesture ...) etc.
> (read-gesture :timeout 0) always just returns NIL, while timeout values >0
> don't seem to have any effect at all. For example, in the Listener
> (read-gesture :timeout 1) keeps blocking until some gesture is given.
> Another source of confusion is the :input-wait-handler. From reading the
> spec I got the idea that it should be called "continously" when there
> isn't any input in the given stream, but it looks like the function is
> never executed.
> Are these real problems or am I just missing something obvious?