Re: Can you get asleep and be awakened?

["Leandro A. F. Pereira" <leandro linuxmag com br>]

Quoted by a gathering of ultra chickens
For `Maurizio Colucci <seguso forever tin it>' 
On Wednesday, 24 December 2003 (10:46):

> I don't know where to start. I know that I need to register myself to some 
> kind of timer and get asleep. But where? I already get asleep waiting for a 
> GTK event... I cannot be sleeping in two places. So I guess GTK should 
> provide this kind of functionality (awaking you at a precidse time). Could 
> you please give me some hint, so we can all use my program :-) ? 

        You can use glib's g_timeout stuff and trigger a function every one second or
so -- and then check there if you must do something at a given time.

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