Re: Displaying intermediate button images.

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:

> > You seemed to have ignored the revised small attached program that I
> > sent you and gone back to my first version. Could you show me how to
> > do this with the program attached below please?
>
>
> No I did not, I based it on the code you attatched in your private
> post, note that the first thing I did was to remove the reve_timeout()
> function.


You are correct. Apologies.

> Yes,
>    I see that; that doesnt mean that you cant adjust your code
> to be event based; the select() call in reve_sleep() should
> be the select() call in g_poll(), envoked implicitly be the GMainLoop
> in gmain.c, in other words, dont sleep(), instead: return.
>
> The program I uploaded does this and should at least give you an
> idea of how to implement that in your larger application.
>
> If you need to resume some other execution when your buttons
> finish flickering; then you can either call that code segment
> directly from your timeout handler before returning FALSE,
> or register an idle handler before returning FALSE.


Okay. I'll see if I can munge the code better to work the way that Gtk+
event programming needs.

Thanks.