Re: gtk+ and pthread

[Dr.Peter Rottengatter <peter rottengatter de>]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:32:56 +0000, "Ro Stellar" <ro_stellar@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am currently writing an application which, among other things, needs to 
> continually receive data over a UDP connection and display this data in a 
> gtk pixmap.  I am having problems running  pthread_create()  (for receiving 
> data via UDP) and gtk_main()  (for display and other buttons) at the same 
> time.
> 
> As an alternative, I would like to do the following:
> 1. Put the UDP receive code into a callback function for a button
> 2. Associate this function with the click event for a button that will be 
> created but not displayed
> 3. And... before I call gtk_main() set something so that this button always 
> appears to be clicked or at least being clicked a few times a second or 
> greater

I believe you want to read the documentation on gtk_timeout_add / gtk_timeout_remove.


Cheers  Peter
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