Re: Timer !

[Seth Remington <sremington saberlogic com>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 ahmed-1205 zabvision edu pk wrote:

> Hi ,
>
> I want this timer functionality in my gtk program, right now what i am
> doing is
>
> signal(sigalrm,sigh)
> alarm(1);
>
> and in sigh
>
> void sigh(int sig) {
> // do my stuff
> alarm(1);
> }
>
> is this ok  ? or Gtk provides some alternative to this ?

Have you looked into the g_timeout_add() function?
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html#g-timeout-add

-Seth

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