Re: Is "The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide" from No Starch Press good for gnome-perl?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 10, 2004, at 7:26 PM, Elijah P Newren wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 13:08 +0200, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
>
> > or, more Perlish:
> >
> >   Gtk2->main_iteration while (Gtk2->events_pending);
>
> Isn't this method actually obsolete? [...]  The answer I found was 
> basically using the C version of the method you suggest.  If I recall 
> correctly, I was told that method was deprecated and was told that 
> glib had (recently) taken over the main loop.

according to the C API reference, gtk_main(), gtk_main_quit(), 
gtk_events_pending() and gtk_main_iteration() have yet to be 
deprecated:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-General.html#gtk-main

the main loop did, indeed, move to GLib, so that it could be made 
threadsafe and useful outside of gtk+, and have other nifty features.  
in gtk+ app code, i think the accepted convention is to use the gtk+ 
level stuff, because "do iterations while there are events pending" is 
rather self-documenting.

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