Re: GTK Programming

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:52:19AM -0400, Melvin Newman wrote:
> Basicaly I have a button that when pressed is supposed to connect to a
> remote server. As this client is trying to connect to the server, it is
> supposed to update the user interface by outputting a text character to a
> text output box.
> ...

While it does not answer the original question, have a look
at GIOChannels, they allow quite native integration of
similar operation into the main loop.  That is, instead of
running the main loop explicitly by hand, one plugs the I/O
into it as another event source.

Yeti


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