Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!csd.uwo.ca!bradd
From: bradd@csd.uwo.ca (krusty the klown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: `Sharing' with XtAppMainLoop
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.162008@csd.uwo.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 91 21:20:08 GMT
Sender: news@ria.ccs.uwo.ca
Reply-To: bradd@csd.uwo.ca (krusty the klown)
Organization: Computer Science Department - Univ. of Western Ontario
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I'm just getting my feet wet in X-window development, so here's another
question:

I would like to have my program keep cranking away while XtAppMainLoop
is in action.
I came up with the following solution, but I'm sure that there are
better ones:

  Before starting XtAppMainLoop, call XtAppAddTimeOut with an interval of
  1 millisecond.
  Call XtAppMainLoop.
  Every time the procedure from XtAppAddTimeOut is called, restart the
  timeout with another call to XtAppAddTimeOut.

This appears to work, but I'm sure there is a better way.
The smallest possible timeout of 1 millisecond doesn't seem to quick;
ie: my program
running in the "background" seems a little slow.

BTW, I'm using the Athena Widget Set.
Thanks.

Patrick Bradd                                     bradd@csd.uwo.ca