Lloyd Bryant wrote:
> 1089         if (!(i & 0x3f)) {
> 1090             gcu_gtk_main_flush();
> 1091         }
> 
> My problem: I've designed out the "for" loop that sets the value of "i".
> 
> It looks like this code was supposed to run every 64th iteration of the 
> loop.  The question is why?  Is this some sort of scheduler call?  If so, 
> how often should it be called?

As I wrote, this prevents that the GUI stalls. It dispatches queued events.
The magic number is just some good guess. On a fast system that might be
overkill, on a slow one (especially slow I/O) it might still be insufficient.

-- 
Christian

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