Re: GUI very slow when sleep() called...

[Adam Huuva <sventon easter-eggs com>]

cyrusp@cia.com.au wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In an app I'm writing I have to put a usleep(100000) call in my
> code. However when I do this my gui becomes very slow and unresponsive -
> understandibly since I'm doing it in the gtk_main loop...
> 
> Is there a way to sleep but refresh the gui at the same time?

use gtk_timeout_add() to assign a function to be called at a fixed
intervall. 
then call gtk_main();

gtk_timeout_add in the tutorial:
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/gtk_tut-17.html#ss17.1


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