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From: hreba <hreba@terra.com.br>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GTK and tasking (GNAT)
Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 19:10:16 -0300
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On 05/03/2014 06:23 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
>
> I don't know how this ought to be done in Gtk, though I strongly suspect
> it's not like that! However, the way to deal with the task problem would
> normally be to save the values passed with the accept and deal with them
> afterward:
>
>     accept StartCounter (txtBox: Gtk.GEntry.Gtk_Entry) do
>        txtBoxCopy := txtBox;
>     end StartCounter;
>     --  Now the caller can carry on while we work with the passed value.
>     for i in 1..10 loop
>        Gtk.GEntry.Set_Text (txtBoxCopy, Integer'Image(i));
>        Gtk.Widget.Queue_Draw (Gtk.Widget.Gtk_Widget(txtBoxCopy));
>        delay 0.5;
>     end loop;
>

Read your reply again. This is the crucial hint. It works now.

Thanks a lot!
-- 
Frank Hrebabetzky		+55 / 48 / 3235 1106
Florianopolis, Brazil