On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:12:24 -0400 (EDT) Marshall Lake <ml...@mlake.net> wrote:
> What stops an idle function from being executed? ... pending events, > right? > > I have a situation where an idle function does NOT get called with > the following code: > > g_idle_add ((GSourceFunc) idlefunc, NULL); > > OR > > while (gtk_events_pending ()) > gtk_main_iteration (); > g_idle_add ((GSourceFunc) idlefunc, NULL); > [snip] Assuming there is no coding error in your program which causes an event in the main loop to block (including a blocking g_idle_add() callback), use g_idle_add_full() and give the callback a higher priority in the event queue to put it ahead of the other events. G_PRIORITY_HIGH will even put it above any GDK drawing functions (not to be recommended though). Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
