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

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin bol com br>]

y g wrote:

> 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.
That's exactly what you should do in this case: use a structure, since
all calbacks only supporte one user-supplied argument.

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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