timeout

[Thomas Koninckx <tkoninck esat kuleuven ac be>]

Hello,

I'm quite new to gtk, so please  don't shoot if the question is trivial.
I encountered following problem:
I would like to load and display all images contained in a folder. I've 
written some code to do this. The user start this process by clicking a 
button, which adds a  gtk_timeout. So far everything is fine.
The problem is that when the timer is set rather short, and images are 
loaded as fast as the machine can handle, reaction to any button-click 
is very slow, or even nonexistent! So, when I try to pause or stop this 
process, there is no reaction. Even not when I try to close the window.
I've played around with threads, but with little succes. A solution 
could be increasing the timer value. The problem with this is that I 
actually  do more with the image than only displaying it.  So I would 
need a worst case timing... which is unaccepatble in this case.

Anny help is welcome
Thanks

Thomas