Re: Gtk->main

[Dermot Musgrove <dermot glade perl connectfree co uk>]

Eric wrote:
> Hi, I'm writing my first Gtk app and I've had some trouble.
>
> My understanding from the reference documents, tutorials and example code 
> was that Gtk::main was supposed to be a loop that does not return.  That 
> does not seem to be the case on my machine.  Even if I run the Goodbye 
> World example program from the gtk-perl tutorial, the program exits 
> immediately after the call to "main Gtk;"  If I put a print statement on 
> the line after it, it prints out.  I thought this wasn't supposed to 
> happen.
AFAIK Gtk->main() loops handling events until Gtk->main_quit() is called
and the program drops through to continue at the next line (print).

[...]
> PS I've also tried to make my own loop by calling:
>
> while(1)
> {
> Gtk->main_iteration();
> }
> This segfaults.
Try 
    Gtk->main_iteration while Gtk->events_pending;

HTH, Dermot