Re: Infinite loop within a callback

[G Hasse <gh raditex se>]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Angelo Carpenzano wrote:

> Hi, I need to start an infinite loop when a toggle button receive the
> "toggled" event and I must to stop this loop when the is re-toggled.
> If I write:
>
> while(TRUE) {
>    ...
> }
>
> I can't listen event and I can't stop the loop.
> In addition to using threads, what a solution can I use?

You should listen to a file descriptor with

gdk_input_add( fd, GDK_INPUT_READ, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(file_function),
&cmdinfo );

Note that a file dscriptor could be a socket!

GH


> Thanx,
> Angelo Carpenzano
>
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> Sorry for my bad english ;-)

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