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Re: toolkits question



Erez Doron wrote:

> HI
>
> in all the toolkits i know (i.e. motif and qt)
> and I'm sure it is the same with the others,
> everything is written as event-drivven
> (i.e. when a mouse is move over, or a key is pressed
>  or the mouse is clicked)
>
> what if I also want to do things in the background.
> (without forking) ?
>
> for example, in qt, after all was initialized,
> one calls main_widget.exec();
> how do i do other staff at the same time
>
> regards
> erez.

Check out XtAppAddWorkProc. Dunno if that's what you meant, but the
toolkit executes the procedure on an opportunistic basis. I think the procedure
should have a short execution time as it is blocking.

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