Re: sleeping with GTK

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Henri Torgemane <henrit yahoo-inc com> writes:
> I'm using the following code to wait x ms in my code, while still
> getting GTK events processed:
>
> static gboolean
> gtk_wait_timeout (gpointer data)
> {
>   gtk_main_quit ();
>   return FALSE;
> }
>
> static void
> gtk_wait (gint ms)
> {
>   g_idle_add (ms, gtk_wait_timeout);

(assuming you mean g_timeout_add)

>   gtk_main ();
> }
>
> My question is, Is this bad for any reason?
> I got a core dump report that points to the gtk_main() call, with 4 more
> stack entries above, 3 belonging to GTK but that I can't resolve (wrong
> library version, probably) and one completely bogus.
> Is there any known bug/reason that could explain this?
> Is recursive calling of gtk_main really safe, or are there conditions I
> should know and avoid?
> Similarly, is it ok to call gtk_main_quit from a timeout handler, or is
> there a "right" moment/place to do it?

That code should work fine, I think.

Havoc