Re: gtkada and timeouts

[Julian Leyh <julian@vgai.de>]

On 1 Apr., 10:09, tonyg <tonytheg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've written a function called update_screen which always returns a
> value of true and sets various values in the 'main_screen' access
> record. This is part of the code from glade/gate which I have modified
> to include a timeout
>
> with Gtk; use Gtk;
> with Gtk; use Gtk;
> with Gtk.Main; use Gtk.Main;
> with Gtk.Widget; use Gtk.Widget;
> with Main_Screen_Pkg; use Main_Screen_Pkg;
> with Main_Control; use Main_Control;
> procedure Main_Screen is
>    Main_Screen : Main_Screen_Access;
>         Timeout_Id : Timeout_Handler_id ;
>    package Data_Timeout is new Gtk.Main.Timeout (Main_Screen_Access);
>
> begin
>    Gtk.Main.Set_Locale;
>    Gtk.Main.Init;
>    Gtk_New (Main_Screen);
>    Show_All (Main_Screen);
>    Gtk.Main.Main;
>    -- my addition -- the timer
>    Timeout_Id := Data_Timeout.Add (100, Update_Screen'Access,
> Main_Screen);
>
> end Main_Screen;
>
> Sadly the timeout is never called, Can anyone cast some light on this?

Gtk.Main.Main never returns.