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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Processing events "normally" outside XtMainLoop()
Keywords: XEvent, XtProcessEvent, event
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.125955@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 11 Sep 90 19:59:55 GMT
References: <15762@know.pws.bull.com>
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In article <15762@know.pws.bull.com>, mwolf@pws.bull.com (Mary-Anne Wolf) writes:
|> I also want to be able to do things in other windows while it is running.

Sounds like you want to context switch in and out of your long-running
function.  One easy way to do this is to put it in a separate UNIX
process (or the equivalent in your OS) and let the OS do the
switching.  Alternatively, if you have support for it, you can use two
threads within the same process, but you have to make sure your
libraries support multiple threads.

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Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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