I am going to limit my responses to technical parts. It's too early in the morning for anything else :).
> Yes, all these timer loops in paraview are annoying. I am not sure there "many" timer loops in ParaView. Please feel free to elaborate. Even this collaboration timer comes into play only when connected to a collaboration enabled session. Also, not collaboration support is one of those advanced, not often used features and hence the road is expected to be bumpy. > There is no platform > independent solution for registering callbacks on sockets, but for each > supported OS a clean solution exists, which you could implement. So, it is > doable, Having the event loop calling select on the socket is a fairly common practice esp. in single threaded applications. _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview