Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu!lim From: lim@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Lim Kok Kian) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: "wake up" XtAppMainLoop Message-ID: <9954@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 21:33:11 GMT Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Reply-To: lim@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Lim Kok Kian) Organization: University of Hawaii, College of Engineering Lines: 17 I'm sure this has been asked before and I am sure there got to be a way to get around with the following problem I have : In my application I fork a child and do something and the child process will generate data and after so many data generated I want the parent process which is the application to be able to read or get the data and display that on the appication screen. My question is : Is there a way to wake up the XtAppMainLoop from the child .... say may be using some kind of signal ? Any Help would be appreciated ... but please email me directly cause I didn't keep up with this newsgroup! Thanks aloha --lim