Re: Refreshing of the text

[Christer Palm <palm nogui se>]

John Cupitt wrote:
> You have two solutions, I think:
>
> - Every time a packet comes in, update your widgets and call
>
>    while( g_main_context_iteration( NULL, FALSE ) )
>      ;
>
>  this will make the screen repaint.

This is not a good idea. What if there are no packets coming in? Then 
your GUI would not be responding at all.

If you don't opt for a multithreaded aproach, I think you can have the 
main loop watch the libpcap file descriptor for you by using 
g_io_add_watch() or something.

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Christer