Re: what is the function name that you can send a function to be running every n milliseconds

[y g <odysseus lost gmail com>]

On 7/15/05, zhanglei <zhanglei sict ac cn> wrote:
> y g wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I remember using some kind of function that allowed me to "send
> > another function to the background" and be called every some
> > milliseconds passed as parameter, but I can't remember its name or
> > where the documentation lies.... If someone has a quick answer to that
> > please help...
> >
> > Cheers
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> In file gtk-General.html of GTK+ Reference Manual(mainloop and events)
> g_timeout_add( guint timeinterval, int (*func)(gpointer data), gpointer
> data );
>
> Maybe this is what you are finding .

Thank you all for your replies. Exactly that was what I've been
looking for... gtk_timeout_add or g_timeout_add since the first one is
deprecated.

One further question.... The function prototype of g_timeout_add is:
guint       g_timeout_add                   (guint interval,
                                             GSourceFunc function,
                                             gpointer data);

1. If function takes more that one argument how do I pass them in the
gpointer data...
eg.

gboolean
lala(gint a, gint b)
{
  return a+b;
}

The following fails, which by the way gives me a warning that the
second argument is of incompatible pointer type (do I need a cast?):
g_timeout_add(100, lala, a, b);

So the only way that I can think of if I want to pass more than one
argument is to make a structure that holds the two integers and pass
that one as an argument to the function.

Is that correct?

Cheers!