[Mono-dev] timer locks up interface..

[Giovanni A. D.]

hi,
I'm a beginner with mono and yesterday I tried to do a simple hello
world like app. using monodevelop and creating a glade 2 project
(glade-project-2.0.dtd).

I'm using mono 1.1.13 installed with the installer.

I've been able to set up a timer and the console output is exactly
what I'd expect; the problem cames when I try to output the value of
timecnt into a label..

it displays correctly the first 2 times then the interface freeze and
doesn't get update while the console output goes on fine.

any tip/idea? here is the code I wrote:

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using System;
using Gtk;
using Glade;

public class GladeApp
{
	public static void Main (string[] args)
	{
		new GladeApp (args);
	}

	public GladeApp (string[] args)
	{
		Application.Init ();

		Glade.XML gxml = new Glade.XML (null, "gui.glade", "window1", null);
		gxml.Autoconnect (this);
		
		button1.Clicked += OnClickButton1;		
		button2.Clicked += OnClickButton2;				
		
		startTimer();
		Application.Run ();
	}
	
	System.Timers.Timer my_timer = new System.Timers.Timer(1000);	
	Int32 timecnt;	
	
	[Glade.Widget]
	Button button1;
	
	[Glade.Widget]
	Button button2;
	
	[Glade.Widget]
	Label label1;	

	// Connect the Signals defined in Glade
	private void OnWindowDeleteEvent (object sender, DeleteEventArgs a)
	{
		Application.Quit ();
		a.RetVal = true;
	}
	
	
	private void OnClickButton1 (object o, EventArgs e)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("Start");
		my_timer.Start();
	}
	

	private void OnClickButton2 (object o, EventArgs e)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("Stop");
		my_timer.Stop();
	}						
	
	
	private void doTimerClick(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("- timer - "+timecnt.ToString());
		label1.Text=timecnt.ToString();
		timecnt++;
				
		if (timecnt > 10) {
			timecnt=1;
		}

	}
	
	private void startTimer() {
		timecnt=1;
		my_timer.Enabled = true;
		my_timer.Elapsed += new System.Timers.ElapsedEventHandler(doTimerClick);
		Console.WriteLine("Timer setup OK");		
	}
		
}
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thanks in advice for any reply.

bye,
Giovanni.