Re: [gnome-devel] Re: Autodetect CD

[Reginald Johnson <reginald johnson cox net>]

Sean,
   Thanks for the help in clearing that up for me.  Now that I know 
what I need to do, you wouldn't happen to know of any good online 
tutorials on the best way to do this kind of polling in gnome?

Reginald

Sean Middleditch wrote:

> Reginald Johnson wrote:
>
> > If there isn't a method to do this, how are media players such as 
> > XMMS able to accomplish somthing similar?  They don't seem to be 
> > running in the background so they can't be resorting to polling the 
> > CD.  Any ideas how they are able to do this?
>
>
> They poll.  Polling doesn't require them to actively run.  They just 
> wake up once every second or so, check if there's a CD, and then go 
> back to sleep.  Tools like ps or top probably won't ever be able to 
> catch the app in that window without real SMP and some very good timing.
>
> In the future they will hopefully use HAL events and such, as will all 
> other desktop apps.
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