Re: timers

[Diego Zuccato <diego otello alma unibo it>]

Ben Johnson wrote:
> keep in mind that there is no guarantee that that the timer will fire
> "on time".  it will fire as soon as possible, and only during main loop.
> So, if one of your functions takes several seconds to complete a task
> and doesn't allow gtk events to be processed, your g_timeout callback
> will not be called for those several seconds.  I think this is similar
> to how POSIX signals work, but they're a little more reliable. :)
If this behaviour is not what he wants, he should fallback to 
multithreading (w/ all the gdk_threads_enter/leave stuff).

BYtE,
 Diego.