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Article #36365Re: Synchronous vs Asynchrounous
From: David Hammerslag
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 17:14
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 17:14
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In article <9002021641.AA24460@expo.lcs.mit.edu>, kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson) writes: > > [ David Hammerslag (hammer@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu) writes: ] > > > I faced a similar problem. Here is what I did. (Caveat: it ain't pretty, > > but is seems to work). If anybody is willing to share a more reasonable > > solution, I would like to see it. > > > This is one of the best solutions I have seen to this problem. In face using > XtAppAddTimeout() you can even set a global variable to have this loop time out > after a few seconds, so that your application doesn't hang if the window > happens to be covered and doesn't receive an expose event. > > > Chris D. Peterson > MIT X Consortium Well, now I have to 'fess up. The solution I posted was inspired by the way the same problem was solved in "xman." No wonder you liked it! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Hammerslag | "Woe to those who are wise in their own hammer@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu | eyes and clever in their own sight." Isaiah 5:21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sp29.csrd.uiuc.edu!hammer From: hammer@sp29.csrd.uiuc.edu (David Hammerslag) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Synchronous vs Asynchrounous Message-ID: <1990Feb3.171406.14379@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 3 Feb 90 17:14:06 GMT References: <9002021641.AA24460@expo.lcs.mit.edu> <1990Feb1.213625.12870@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: hammer@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois Center for Supercomputing Research and Development Lines: 27