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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: getting back to the main event processing loop
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Date: 18 Oct 89 15:49:40 GMT
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> XtAppAddTimeOut(app, (long)0, ...
> Am I abusing this call,

Probably not.

> I find my main
> loop is very busy,

I'm not surprised, if you schedule a lot of zero-length timeouts :-)
Sure looks a lot like work procedures to me (XtAppAddWorkProc); why
did you decide to use timeouts?