RE: resetting timeout source

[Juan Pablo L. <jpablolorenzetti hotmail com>]

thank you very much!!! i m having a look right !

> From: smspillaz gmail com
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:33:08 +0800
> Subject: Re: resetting timeout source
> To: jardasmid gmail com
> CC: jpablolorenzetti hotmail com; gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Jaroslav Šmíd <jardasmid gmail com> wrote:
> > Well, I cannot find anything in glib. If you use linux, you can use
> > timerfd_create() to create pollable timer, create new GSource, attach the
> > descriptor and you got your timer. Set intervals to zero to stop it,
> > descriptor will get no more read events, and you don't even need to detach
> > the source from event loop. You can 'reset' the timer without stopping it
> > first.
>
> In fact, I just had to write something similar the other day - have a
> look at http://git.compiz.org/~dbo/compiz-with-glib-mainloop/tree/src/timer.cpp?h=glibmm-experimental#n30
> (albeit it is glibmm, but you should be able to get the idea and
> translate it to regular glib, this is essentially what I did in
> reverse)
>
> > On 12/25/2010 12:48 AM, Juan Pablo L. wrote:
> > > Hi, i m making an application which needs to perform a small task evey X
> > > secs, it will disconnect from a server if X seconds have passed without the
> > > aplication sending anything to the server, but if before completing the X
> > > secs i send something to the server i have to reset the timer for another X
> > > secs and so on like that all the time .... but my problem is that i can not
> > > find a way of resetting the timer without destroying and recreating the time
> > > again and again and again ..... which i find it too much for just the small
> > > task of resetting the timer, in other words i do not want to be freeing and
> > > getting new memory all the time i find that to be very inefficient and there
> > > should not be any need for it, so is there anyway to reset the timer without
> > > releasing its memory and getting memory all the time ? i know that if the
> > > callback function returns FALSE the source will not be added in the loop
> > > again so i guess i can just attach it again but that will only work when the
> > > timer
> >
> > ex
> > >  pires so that will not help when the timer has not yet expired and i need
> > > to reset it for another  X secs. So should know that i m attaching the timer
> > > to a non default main loop (it is a main loop inside a thread). any ideas
> > > will be very helpful. thanks!!!
> > >
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