Re: Event loop

["Earle R. Nietzel" <nietzel yahoo com>]

I think you mean threads not another process...

Threads are a much better solution than creating another process...


> G Hasse <gh raditex se> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Ubirata Azevedo Ignacio wrote:
> >
> > >   Hi!
> > >
> > >   How can I control th event loop?
> > >   I wanna something like
> > >  
> > >      while(1)
> > >      {
> > > do_something() ;
> > > process_gtk_event_loop() ;
> > > do_another_thing() ;
> > >      }
> >
> > Is this just not bad Unix programming? Why not devide your program in
> > several processes and let them communicate? Use file descriptors or
> > sockets to do the communication.
> >
> > If you want to do several thing in one process - you must have
> > made a bad design... Well some small things might go inte a single
> > process - but if you devide our system in several processes you should
> > get rid of the above construct.
>
> process_gtk_event_loop should be:
> while (gtk_events_pending ())
>         gtk_main_iteration ();
>
> However, it depends what do_something and do_another_thing are doing.
> If you are doing anything that is fairly computationally intensive, then
> doing it in a separate process is probably the cleanest way to do so.
> This will give you a much nicer GUI, as a result.
>
> If you are just doing something occasionally, you may be able to do it
> in an idle handler.  More info on this is available at:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gtk/gtk-general.html#GTK-TIMEOUT-ADD
>
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
>
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