RE: GTK event loop

["Peter \"Firefly\" Lund" <firefly diku dk>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Freddie Unpenstein wrote:

> > 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.

> The GTK main loop does just about everything you need it to.
> Monitoring I/O streams, timeouts, idlers, and just about anything else
> you can conceive of.

I think the question was really about how to integrate the GTK event loop
with raw Xlib calls/event handling.

Metacity sounds like a good example to check out.

-Peter

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 humans can understand."  -- Martin Fowler