Re: How to handle long I/O operations

["Tara M" <learfox furry ao net>]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:37:43 +0200, Markus Lausser said:

>  The disadvantage of this solutions is:
>  * if the working callback needs more time than you have specified for the
>    gtk timeout then your application will freeze.

Are you sure?  I've used this approach on a raytracer and never
had anything freeze.


>  I have implemented such a thing to move files from one location to another.
>  It simply uses the gtk_idle_add function. The only difference is that the
>  working function is not called every X mseconds but if there is time to do
>  that.

Are you suggesting gtk_idle_add instead?  If so that's what I suggested
later on too.


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