Re: Idle func -> 100% CPU usage

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw its tudelft nl>]

On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:19:30 -0400 (EDT), Christopher T. Lansdown wrote:
>      You might consider using a gtk_timeout function, basically a timer
> but it only runs while the gtk even loop is running.  You could set
> it to whatever you want 20ms say, and thus it will call your function
> every 20ms while the gtk main event loop is running.  This way all gtk
> stuff will be serviced prettymuch normally with nearly top priority, and
> you will pretty frequently call your tk function.

Be careful with choosing timeout times: My experience is that a timeout
shorter than 2ms also uses 100% CPU time.


Erik

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