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.