On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 21:02 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > The behavior of GLib timeouts is, I believe somewhat unpractical. I am > talking about, quoting the doc, the fact that they "[do] not try to 'catch > up' time lost in delays". trying to get accurate timers within a GUI event loop is like trying to stay upright while walking across oil on a frozen lake. there is no nothing to prevent a GUI event handler from taking so long that you miss entire "cycles" of your timer. if you need accurate timing, i suggest you see it outside the event loop. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list