Re: Calling an idle function in X

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From: Wade Hundley
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 00:00

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Joshua Rosinger wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am doing a program that invlolves OpenGL, Xlib and a bit of Xt. What I
> want to do is to be able to call a function even if there are no X
> events for my program, ie to perform some work even if the connection is
> idle. This is similar to glutIdleFunc in OpenGL. I need to do it with
> Xlib so I can't use XtAppMainLoop.
> 



Try using XtAddWorkProc. (workId = XtAddWorkProc(
funcCB, 			                                (XtPointer)client_data) )

The funcCB function that you provide will be called when your
process becomes idle.



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From: Wade Hundley <hundley@erdas.com>
Subject: Re: Calling an idle function in X
Date: 1997/07/03
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