Re: Usage of gtk_main_iteration_do ()

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> Harring Figueiredo wrote:
>
> >  If you need to do something based on time, why can't you use 
> > g_timeout_add ?
>
> I wanted only for the loop to run once every time slice of the linux 
> scheduler.
> I found the ideal function is sched_yield():
>
> while(!gtk_main_iteration_do(0)){  // non-blocking
>   a_non_blocking_function();
>   sched_yield();
> }
On second thoughts, the cpu would spin if this is the only process.
Might be better to just sleep for 100ms.

while(!gtk_main_iteration_do(0)){  // non-blocking
  a_non_blocking_function();
  poll(NULL,0,100);
}