On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 11:19 -0400, tj wrote: > Hello, I am new to gtk and I need to port an application to it. However, > there is one thing that I noticed right off of the bat. > > It seems there is no timer event. Like in other widget tool kits where > you create a timer associated with a window ID and give it a timeout > value. When it times out it generates a timer event to that window. > > If there is no timeout event, how do apps that "move" objects across a > screen, like a game, do so while still entering the event loop to wait > for user/system inputs? > > Have I just overlooked it or isit just not there? g_timeout_add (msecs, function, pointer_arg) its part of the "main event loop" structure that lives in glib, not gtk, hence its not part of gtk but glib. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
