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Evenly timed events in a widget program [message #85864]

Sun, 15 September 2013 09:33

dg86
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Registered: September 2012

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Dear Folks,

I'm working on a widget program that resembles a TV screen with icons overlaid on the
video. In my present implementation, a widget timer event triggers updates of the TV screen,
while users interacting with the icons generate other widget events. My problem is that the timer
events can get stacked up behind a great many user-generated events, causing the TV screen to
update erratically.

Is there a way to convince xmanager to act on timer events as soon as they
arrive, rather than working its way systematically but indiscriminately through
the stack of events?

Alternatively, is there a way to run the TV widget as some sort of background process
that runs on its own fixed schedule independent of the user interaction in the foreground?

If the best answer is to ditch xmanager and to call widget_event directly,
can anyone point me to an effectively written example that I might use as a
model for my own code?

Many thanks,

David

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		Evenly timed events in a widget program By: dg86 on Sun, 15 September 2013 09:33
		Re: Evenly timed events in a widget program By: David Fanning on Sun, 15 September 2013 09:45
		Re: Evenly timed events in a widget program By: dg86 on Sun, 15 September 2013 18:43

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