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From: brp@bandit.berkeley.edu (Bruce Raoul Parnas)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: running other processes with windows
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Date: 6 Feb 91 22:33:02 GMT
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thanx for all the response on getting status messages to users with widgets.  in
doing this, it occurred to me that i have a deeper question:

i have a large computational routine and would like a widget to display status
from this.  how can i continue to update this window without being in a
XtAppMainLoop, XtMainLoop or something similar?  The documentation for XtWorkProc
seems to indicate that it is for "small" jobs that happen in between requests.  I
would like to have my procedure be the main job, and be able to output status in
a widget.  i now send output via printf to the window from which i invoked the
routine, and would simply like to redirect this output to a widget that i open,
without seriously affecting my ability to perform the main computation.

sounds like i want a lot, doesn't it?  has anyone done this sort of thing?

thanx,
bruce
(brp@bandit.berkeley.edu)