Re: [gDesklets] events in controls

[Johan van der Slikke <johan slikkie nl>]

Hi,

thanks for you reply.

> > I'm developing a desklets to monitor my laptop battery. So I
> > started with writing an control to provide the information to the
> > desklet. I'm asking the info from HAL via dbus. To let HAL notify
> > me of changes (i.e. an connected power cable) I would normally
> > start a loop with:
> > 
> > self.__ac_obj.connect_to_signal ("PropertyModified",
> > self.__property_modified)
> > self.__batt_obj.connect_to_signal
> > ("PropertyModified", self.__property_modified)
> > 
> > self.__loop = gobject.MainLoop()
> > self.__loop.run()
> > 
> > But this seems to mess up gdesklets: I can only get it working
> > again with killing python and start gdesklets again.
> 
> I think the main problem is that you don't need to run a main loop (so
> you can get rid of both references to self.__loop).  You could either
> call connect_to_signal() in __init__() or in the function that gets
> called whenever a property gets set.  It looks like you might want to
> do this in __init__() if you're going to go with the method you have
> laid out above.