[Sugar-devel] Help Request - Python Timer

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
> I'd like help to create a timer in my activity.
>
> The following code works fine. A callback button alternately selects START
> and STOP options in playcsd() (only crucial lines of code are included):
>
> import csndsugui
> from timeit import Timer
>
> self.p = False
>
> def playcsd(self, widget):
>  if self.p == False:
>    self.p = True
>    self.but.child.set_label("STOP !")
>  else:
>    self.p = False
>    self.but.child.set_label("START !")
>
> self.but = self.w.cbbutton(self.b7, self.playcsd, "START !")
>
>
> I need to add timer code that will call playcsd() after a specified time
> period (here, 30 seconds), as an option to pressing the callback button. I
> thought the following added code should work, but it doesn't. No errors are
> reported, but the desired switch to START (call to playcsd() with self.p ==
> True) doesn't happen either. (The code follows immediately the last line
> above):
>
> if self.p == True:
>  self.t = Timer(30.0, self.playcsd(self.but))

Maybe try gobject.timeout_add instead of Timer?

-walter

>  self.t = start()
>
>
> Art Hunkins
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Walter Bender
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