Re: interrupting a big loop

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Wed, 19 May 2004 14:23:11 -0400 (EDT)
Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:

> > expensive_callback(some_object... data) {
> >      gboolean should_stop;
> >      gulong        sigid;
> >      should_stop = FALSE;
> >      sigid = g_signal_connect(cancel_button, "clicked",
> >                               on_cancel_button_clicked, &should_stop);
> >      for (;;) {
> >          /* ...
> >           */
> >          if (*should_stop) break;
> >          /* ...
> >           */
> >      }
> >      g_signal_disconnect(cancel_button, sigid);
> > }

Q: for this to work, there should at least a call to gtk_main_iteration
inside the loop too? Else the events won't be able to set the variable.

John