[gtk-list] Re: gtk_main() and foreign event loops

[Alexander Taranov <tay jet msk su>]

Owen Taylor writes:
 > 
 > Alexander Taranov <tay@jet.msk.su> writes:
 > 
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > I want to use GTK in CORBA based server (Orbix or ORBACUS)
 > > Both ORB's have a mechanism to incorporte
 > > Xt event loop. 
 > > 
 > > DOes anybody know how to do this with gtk_main() ??
 > 
 > It is difficult to make GTK+'s main event loop subsidiary to
 > another event loop, simply because GTK+ depends on having
 > a pretty full-featured powerful event loop (fully recursive,
 > prioritized event sources, etc.).
 > 
 > It's generally much easier to go the other way, and most ORB's
 > that I'm familiar with (though I have not used either Orbix
 > or ORBACUS) do support this.
 > 
 > That is, in some way, the ORB has a call to register a function
 > to watch a file descriptor, and then you can implement
 > that function in terms of g_io_add_watch().
Yes, both Orbix & ORBACUS have a feature to add fd to watch.
But I'm pretty new to GTK. what is g_io_add_watch() ? of what
fd's shoud i whatch??

-alexander
 > 
 > Regards,
 >                                         Owen
 > 
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