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Re: any replacement for wait function [message #45720 is a reply to message #45719]

Thu, 29 September 2005 14:11

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Benjamin Hornberger
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biophys wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm trying to write a widget program doing some continuous calculation
> while display several pieces of small movie(image/plot sequences) at
> certain speed. I want the speed of movie to be independent of each
> other and the movie content is updated as background calculation spits
> out new data. However, the only way that I know to display a movie is
> to TV to a draw widget and use wiget_timer and wait function to control
> speed. And the problem is that the wait function suspends the whole idl
> session, thus suspending the the other draw widget update as well as
> the background calculation. So it seems impossible to implement this in
> IDL? Or I am not aware of some other technique? Any comments?
>
> Thanks
>

Why do you use WAIT? You should be able to do with WIDGET_TIMER alone, I
think.

Benjamin

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		Re: any replacement for wait function By: David Fanning on Thu, 29 September 2005 16:46
		Re: any replacement for wait function By: biophys on Thu, 29 September 2005 15:21
		Re: any replacement for wait function By: biophys on Thu, 29 September 2005 15:11
		Re: any replacement for wait function By: David Fanning on Thu, 29 September 2005 14:26
		Re: any replacement for wait function By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 29 September 2005 14:11

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