Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!bloom-beacon!SPECTRA.ENG.HAWAII.EDU!lim From: lim@SPECTRA.ENG.HAWAII.EDU (Lim Kok Kian) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: wake up XtAppMainLoop Message-ID: <9010192106.AA06933@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 21:06:24 GMT Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 I'm sure this has been asked before and I am sure there got to be a away 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 ... I will post the result if there are much interest ! aloha --lim