Re: Timers in GTK

[Marco Quezada <mquezada nlxcorp com>]

Any example code to look at for this?

Thanks

G Hasse wrote:
> 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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