Re: Timers in GTK

[G Hasse <gh raditex se>]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Petro Verheuvel wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have an application using setitimer(). I want to integrate this in GTK.
> GTK has some timer-capabilities too. Can these timer concepts be
> simultaneously used, or should i omit the use of setitimer() in GTK ?

It is my strong opinion that you should try to avoid all strict
timeing in your UI.

Make a separate process and let this notify your UI when it has
completed. (Preferable by a file descriptor. And you add a callback with

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

So when your background process put data to fd the UI will go to
"file_function" and process this. If you make fd a socket you could
even distribut your background process.

GH

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