From: Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...>
Date: 2005-08-17T00:28:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Asynchronous events in GTK application?

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:26:15 +0900
Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:

> That's what I did, I just didn't want to confuse the issue with too
> much code. A bigger snippet of what I'm doing follows:
> 
> 	device_change = false
> 	Gtk.timeout_add(500) {
>              return true if (@busy)
> 	    device_change = true if checkDevice
>              true
>          }
>          while true
>              if device_change
>                  processDeviceChange
>                  device_change = false
>              end
>              puts "iteration"
>              p Gtk.main_iteration
> 	end

Usually, we use Gtk.timeout_add with
Gtk.main something like as:

 	Gtk.timeout_add(500) {
            return true if (@busy)
            if checkDevice
                processDeviceChange
            end
            true
        }
        Gtk.main

It's not good idea to make mainloop by yourself.
If you really need it, you need to learn GLib/GTK mainloops 
seriously. Though I don't recommand it.

-- 
.:% Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>