[gtkada] Addressing external data in a GUI

[Michael Bode]

Rick Duley schrieb:

>> ID :=  Gtk.Main.Timeout_Add (500, Display_Status'access); -- call it
>> every 500ms
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> Question:  What does 'ID' represent here?


This is the "handle" of the timer proc. You need it, if you later want 
to remove the timer with

*procedure* Timeout_Remove (Id : Timeout_Handler_Id);

You could also return False in your timer proc to unregister it.

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