Re: glib - main event loop

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:37 +0100
Krzysztof <kj limes com pl> wrote:
> How to get idle event source  called in main event loop? I do the 
> following:
> my idle function is:
>
> static gboolean
> idle ( gpointer data )
> {
>      g_print ( "Idle called\n" );
>      if ( counter1 == 0 && counter2 == 0 )
>      {
>          g_main_loop_quit ( ( GMainLoop * ) data );
>          return FALSE;
>      }
>      else
>          return TRUE;
> }
>
> The variables counter1 and counter2 reach 0 after some time of
> execution.
>
> I add this source this way:
>
>      g_idle_add ( idle, mlp );
>
> where
>
>      GMainLoop *mlp;
>
> is loop which is run.
>
> Even if all sources end with G_SOURCE_REMOVE the idle source is never 
> called.

From your incomplete code it is impossible to say.  Do you call
g_main_loop_run()?  How did you construct your main loop?

Try to post a complete (but minimal) example of what you are doing.

Chris