Re: [gtk-list] problem

[John Lorer <jdl136 mail usask ca>]

Patrick Cantell wrote:
> 
> Hello, i'm working on a small telnet program which needs to wait for
> data on a socket.. and because of having to call gtk_main, i can't think
> of any ways to do this without threads
> 
> Can anyone think of a way to do this or will be forced to use threads?
> 
> Thanks
>  -Patrick
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You can probably use gdk_input_add to watch the file descriptor and call
a callback function when data becomes available. See
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial1.2/gtk_tut-17.html

HTH.

John