Re: Win32 - handling mainloop while showing modal comon controls

[John Ehresman <jpe wingware com>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> The attached patch does this, and it seems to work fine for me. Its not an 
> ideal solution, since we only handle events generated from windows, not 
> e.g. glib timeouts, or other fd:s added to the gtk+ mainloop. However, i'm 
> not sure that is an enourmous problem.

This does seem like a real problem to me; apps can do background 
processing in idle / timeout calls and these should continue when 
dialogs are displayed.  I don't see why this is better that using a 
timer and doing a main iteration periodically.  I wouldn't be too 
worried about this causing calls to the win32 message handler function 
at odd times because this function is already called when numerous win32 
api functions are invoked -- the win32 api already does all sorts of 
weird recursion.

John