Re: [gtk-list] Re: coordinating idle events and redraws

[Tim Janik <timj gimp org>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Marc Ewing wrote:

> Owen Taylor <owt1@cornell.edu> writes:
> > Keeping a single prioritized idle queue seems better to me.
> > It is more flexible, about as easy to implement, and I tend
> > to think of the main loop as providing generic event loop
> > functionality in a way that is somewhat separate from the
> > rest of GTK. So I'd rather put in a general facility than
> > a special case for the drawing/resizing code.
> 
> Agreed.  That's cleaner.
> 
> > It's probably easier for me to do it. I'm going to change things
> > around with gtk_idle_add anyways as part of the _interp() changes,
> > and I'm already pretty familiar with that part of the code.
> > 
> > Assuming that it goes as easily as I think, I'll do it this
> > evening.
> 
> Cool.  Btw, I've just hacked priorities into my copy and it solves
> my little redraw/idle problem.  I don't have general integer 
> priorities though - just a enum with low, default, and high.  It
> seemed more mnemonic than integers.  But either way is fine with me.

if we are really going to implement there should be defines like
#define	GTK_PRIORITY_LEAST	(10)
#define	GTK_PRIORITY_DEFAULT	(0)
#define	GTK_PRIORITY_HIGHEST	(-10)

so you can scale idle hanlders between the extrema.

> 
> -Marc
> 

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