Re: [gtkmm] IOSource

[Anastasios Bassoukos <abas aix meng auth gr>]

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 18:12, BenoƮt Touron wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am writing a network based app, using GTKmm under wn32.
> I created an IOSource to receive notifications when data in available in 
> my socket. It works well, except that when a lot of data arrive, the GUI 
> hangs. It seems that the networks events have an higher priority than 
> GUI events.
> Any ideas or workarouds ?
> 
> Thanks
> Ben

(Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with the win32 environment, I've only
written for Unix-like environments; take the rest with a pinch of salt)

When connecting IO Sources to the main loop, a priority parameter (with
a default value higher than the redraw handler) is specified. Use that
to specify a lower priority on the IOSource.

HTH,
Tassos
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