Re: Running the main loop in a separate thread

[Petko <pditchev gmail com>]

 That's a very nice idea ! I wasn't aware of that function. By doing so 
the idle in GLUT effectively becomes the main-loop service , but how do 
I go about starting the application , and I still have the problem of 
hiding/showing the window properly . The function hide() doesn't seem to 
do much. The only function described to hide a window is from GDK ( 
Gdk::Window:withdraw() ) ,and as far as I know GDK stands between X and 
GTK, so there should be a way to use it (just throwing it out there , 
I'm clearly a novice here) .

On 09/08/2012 03:17 PM, Florian Philipp wrote:
> [...]
>
> I have not tried it but I think it would be a better approach to add an
> idle callback to GLUT (glutIdleFunc) which runs a single iteration of
> the glib main loop.
>
> Something like this:
>
> static void g_iter()
> {
>    g_main_context_iteration(NULL /*context*/, FALSE /*block*/);
> }
>
> glutIdleFunc(g_iter);
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp