Re^3: Gtk2 app -- what's better, threads, or multiple timeouts?


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Re^3: Gtk2 app -- what's better, threads, or multiple timeouts?

by GrandFather (Saint)

on Feb 06, 2009 at 05:28 UTC ( [id://741801]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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The golden rule of event driven code is "never wait". Often that means that you need to initiate a process (start the fetch) then return and handle the reply some time in the future. One thing that implies is that you can only make non-blocking calls in the event processing.

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