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

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:09:59PM -0400, Andy wrote:
> cyrusp cia com au wrote:
> > 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?

Instead of sleeping, use a timer.
If that's a pain, perhaps you can have code like
    while (gtk_events_pending()) {
        gtk_main_iteration();
        if (weWaitedLongEnough) {
            break;
        }
    }
and have a timer set the weWaitedLongEnough variable.

Or, check with gettimeofday() each time round the loop, but that's
slightly slower and probably less portable to non-Unix systems.

It all depends on why you are using the sleep.

Lee

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