[Haskell-beginners] gtk2hs and threadDelay

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 05:33, <gabre at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:

> I dont really know, what timer functions there are, I googled "timing,
> scheduling, delaying in haskell", but the only function I found, was
> threaddelay. How did you mean "adding a timer"?
>

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/gtk/0.12.2/doc/html/Graphics-UI-Gtk-General-General.html#g:7


> On the other side, I checked Graphics.UI.Gtk.Gdk.**drawWindowProcessUpdates.
> I guess, I


It may not actually be the right function.  Felipe was however correct in
that it's the wrong way to go about it; see the above to add a callback
that executes after a delay, *without locking up the UI* which is what the
threadDelay method will do.

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