Re: how to process only some GTK events and leave the others in the queue

[Francesco Montorsi <f18m_cpp217828 yahoo it>]

Tristan Van Berkom ha scritto:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Francesco Montorsi
> > Is it possible?
>
> Hi, for some odd cases you can use:
>    http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-Events.html#gdk-event-put
>
> i.e. by pumping the events out of the event queue yourself, and putting the
> ones you didnt process back.
Thanks, this can be quite useful!


> I doubt this is what you need, I think that removing the while
> (gtk_events_pending())
> code all together and replacing it with more returns to the event
> loop, and shorter
> iterations in timeouts and signal callbacks - will probably fix
> whatever problems
> you are having.
I agree this would be indeed the best thing but actually the situation is 
somewhat more complex of what I described (in reality, it regards a wxWidgets 
application...)

Thanks for the gdk_event_put trick hint!
Francesco


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