NAME¶
Padre::Wx::Role::Timer - Convenience methods for working with Wx timers
DESCRIPTION¶
This role implements a set of methods for letting Wx objects in Padre implement
dwell events on elements that do not otherwise natively support them.
In this initial simplified implementation, we support only one common dwell
event for each combination of object class and dwell method.
If multiple instances of a class are used, then the timer id will collide across
multiple timers and unexpected behaviour may occur.
METHODS¶
dwell_start¶
# Half second dwell timer on a text input
$wx_object->dwell_start( on_text => 500 );
The "dwell_start" method starts (or restarts) the dwell timer.
It has two required parameters of the method to call, and the amount of time (in
thousands of a second) that the event should be delayed.
Note that when the dwell-delayed event is actually called, it will NOT be passed
the original Wx event object. The method will be called directly and with no
parameters.
Please note that calling this method will result in the creating of a Wx::Timer
object in an object HASH slot that matches the name of the method.
As a result, if you wish to create a dwell to a method "foo" you may
never make use of the "$wx_object->{foo}" slot on that object.
dwell_stop¶
$wx_object->dwell_stop( 'on_text' );
The "dwell_stop" method prevents a single named dwell event from
firing, if there is a timer underway.
If there is no dwell for the named event the method will silently succeed.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE¶
Copyright 2008-2013 The Padre development team as listed in Padre.pm.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl 5 itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this
module.