RE: GTK event loop

[<martyn 2 russell bt com>]

> i want to use gtk+ in my application to provide the gui 
> elements and internationalized text -
> from what i've seen and played with it looks very good.
>
> the major issue issue i left is that my application is a 
> window manager so it's mostly sitting
> in a loop responding to events - the gtk documentation i've 
> read indicates that i must call
> gtk_main (); to enter the GTK event loop and this call blocks 
> until the application is
> terminated.
>
> i'm sure many others have come across this before - what's 
> the best way to resolve it ?

Have a look at gtk_main_iteration_do():
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-General.html#gtk-main-iteration-do

and gtk_events_pending():
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-General.html#gtk-events-pending


Regards,
Martyn