[mcclim-devel] Problems in reading with :timeout

[Duncan Rose]

On Friday, May 6, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Tomi K Neste wrote:

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>
> I'm trying to figure out how to do some simple animation, like a clock 
> or process browser that should keep on updating every few seconds. So 
> I thought the way to go would be specializing the READ-COMMAND or 
> READ-FRAME-COMMAND and use the :timeout where approriate. I also 
> thought about using different thread for the pane updating, but I'm 
> not sure if that would be a smart thing to do.
> So I'm wondering if there's a canonical way to accomplish something 
> like that, some sources perhaps?
>

Hrm. I wrote a little clock thing quite a while ago and had trouble 
with this. The following post includes some code to show a problem I 
was having (fixed at the time the mail was sent in actual fact) so it's 
fully functional and uses scheduled events to redraw a pane:-

http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/mcclim-devel/2003-October/000438.html

Hopefully this will help you out.

-Duncan


> BTW, big thanks to all McCLIM developers, fascinating stuff :-)
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