Re: discoveries! gtk DOES dim... how can i infinite-loop?

[Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com>]

On 01/19/2012 01:58 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> i've spent the last many days tryoing [on ubuntu] anf tonight on my
> EEE-900A netbook [debian].  both dim when i go into a recursive
> loop.
>
> 1.  edit with gvim
> 2.  have espeak voice gvim when it is written
> 3 goto 1;
>
> tonight i did everything absolutedly write in chercking various
> things, but the app still dimd if i have the function call itselg.
>
> i should have asked this list whether there there is  a gtk call
> that let's things go into  either  an infinite loop, or, would a
> for() loop work for 300-500 loops?

I already gave you the answer to this.  While you are looping in your
callback you have to iterate the GTK main loop:

while (some long-running thing) {
        while (gtk_events_pending ()) {
                gtk_main_iteration ();
        }
        //do something
}