I have a GTK program in which I would like to periodically have a function called (say every 1-5 sec) to perform a check on something and take a certain action depending upon the result. Usually the action will be to do nothing and return. I had first tried using a gtk_idle_add but this calls it very frequently and eats a lot of cpu time checking my "something" and sees that it hasn't changed so it returns and does nothing only to be called practically right a way again if the user isn't interacting with the interface. Does GTK+ or GLIB provide any type of repeating timers or alarms? I'm looking for a portable way (Linux and XP). Unix has "alarm" and XP has other timers I believe but was looking for something that might be common to both. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
