Re: Windows GTK hang 'not responding'

[Derek Piper <dcpiper indiana edu>]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 13:45 -0400, Derek Piper wrote:
>
> > 	Hi,
> >
> > 	Thanks to all for the helpful hints, even with my vague descriptions. 
> > It turns out that it was a problem under Windows in getting the current 
> > time. Using timeGetTime() from the multimedia timers I wanted to convert 
> > it to microseconds in keeping with the value from gettimeofday that's 
> > used in the rest of my program. Anyway, when multiplying that value by 
> > 1000 and assigning it to a larger data type of 'long long' it multiplied 
> > it within a single 32bit integer and overflowed it.
>
>
> hint:
>
> #include <sys/time.h>
>
> struct timeval now, then, diff;
> gettimeofday (&then, NULL);
> ...
> gettimeofday (&now, NULL);
> timersub (&now, &then, &diff);

Not in Windows (at least not in a MinGW build) and not at the resolution 
needed either (function was used for other things). Other than that, 
great :>

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Derek Piper - dcpiper indiana edu - (812) 856 0111
IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana