Re: loop gtk

[Alejandro <kaligod gmail com>]

Hello Juergen

I will apreciate you can address me to now how to do it, I am new writing Perl-Gtk2 GUI apps. please check previously answered email, I attached the code.

El mié, 14-08-2013 a las 08:08 +0200, Juergen Harms escribió:
> Essentially, the loop you are looking for is already built into gtk: gtk 
> permanently runs its "event loop" when your application is idling - it 
> starts idling when you return form your "main" procedure (in which you 
> probably have done all drawing of your user interface).
>
> When gtk detects an event - for instance the key_press-event mentioned 
> by Grant, it uses a callback mechanism to call the handler you have 
> declared, does what you have programmed into this handler, and than goes 
> back to idling and waits for further events.
>
> If you are building up experience with gtk, it is important that you are 
> familiar with this way of handling the parallelism between your program 
> and "random" things like I/O that happen asynchoronously with respect to 
> your program - and that you conceive your application to profit from 
> this way of doing.
>
> Good luck - Juergen
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