Re: Wait for gtk events with select?

[Steve Lawrence <kfjethro gmail com>]

Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to wait for gtk events via some file descriptor 
> given to a select call? 
>
> I am porting an application to gtk that calls some "gimme_input"
> function every now and then and want's me to do some waiting
> for net sockets there. Now i'd like to use the same select call
> i am using for the network sockets also to wait for gtk events.
> Is this possible? What's the name of the file descriptor to use?
>
> Thanks,
>     Till
>   
Till:

I think you could use GIOChannels. A callback can be setup when data is 
waiting to be read
from an iochannel. An iochannel is created from a file descriptor. 
Hopefully this link will
point you in the right direction:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-IO-Channels.html#g-io-add-watch