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

[Andy <sveikaus worldnet att net>]

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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cyrus

Threads would be one way, although they can be not very portable and
pretty icky.  See "$ man pthread_create" and the GTK.org FAQ question on
writing threaded GTK+ applications.

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