GtkReactive widgets that elicit a self push!

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Hi all,
I need some help figuring this out. The goal is to have a cool time-widget for the GtkReactive.jl package:

  1. with say 3 fields: hours, minutes, and seconds
  2. always shows a valid time (e.g. no 63 seconds)
  3. allows for scrolling, say, the seconds beyond 59 so that the seconds nullify and the minutes widget will go up one unit

Here’s what I have so far:

h = spinbutton(0:23, orientation = "v")
m = spinbutton(0:60, orientation = "v")
s = spinbutton(0:60, orientation = "v")

These get processed into Time:

t = map(h, m, s) do hh, mm, ss
    Dates.Time(0,0,0) + Dates.Hour(hh) + Dates.Minute(mm) + Dates.Second(ss)
end

Good. Now no matter what the user puts into those widgets I’ll end up with a valid time, and therefore valid values for the individual widgets (satisfying feature #3 in the list above):

h2 = map(x -> Dates.value(Dates.Hour(x)), t)
m2 = map(x -> Dates.value(Dates.Minute(x)), t)
s2 = map(x -> Dates.value(Dates.Second(x)), t)

But here’s the problem, how do I update the original widgets without eliciting a never-ending loop?

For a bit more information see feature request #18 in GtkReactive.jl.

Appreciate any help!