RE: Newbie & timing issue

[Alf C Stockton <alf stockton co za>]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:

> > Between warnings this warning program's form must not appear on the screen. ie
> > The warning will popup and display for a predefined period of time and then
> > disappear till next time.
> >
> > Can this be done with gtk+ in windows ?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Now the timing issue is something I can handle if this was a console program
> > so
> > I am asking if a gtk+ created form can be made to appear and disappear on
> > requests from the program.
>
> Yes it can.  It would be a GtkWindow or a GtkDialog, either way, it is a
> GtkWidget and you can use gtk_widget_hide () and gtk_widget_show () with the
> window/dialog.
>
> As for timing, I suggest you look into g_timeout_add () unless you already have that covered :)
Thank you Martyn.

Now for my next trick I would like to restart the display after receiving a
interrupt rather than take up memory & cycles while counting down.

Is there a way that my program could instigate/initiate an interrupt to occur at
some time in the future?

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Regards,
Alf Stockton    www.stockton.co.za

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