Re: Periodic and cross platform timers or alarms

[Douglas Vechinski <douglas vechinski dynetics com>]

Thanks for the info but you now made me think of another question.

While in the callback, if I determine that I need to perform a task that 
could "take a while", do I need to be worried that the alarm or signal 
could be called again.  If so, is there a  way to suspend it so it  
won't be called again  until I finish  with the current callback or do I 
need to use a g_source_remove and then before I return do another 
g_timeout_add.

Ben Johnson wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:16:10PM -0500, Douglas Vechinski wrote:
> ...
>  
>
> > Does GTK+ or GLIB provide any type of repeating timers or alarms?  I'm
> > looking for a portable way (Linux and XP).  Unix has "alarm" and XP has
> > other timers I believe but was looking for something that might be
> > common to both.
> >    
>
> this registers a callback:
>
> http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html#g-timeout-add
>
>
> and (I think I got the right one here), you can use this function to
> stop the timer outside of the timeout callback:
>
> http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html#g-source-remove
>
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