Re: glib+orbit

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

bob@cs.csoft.net writes:

> I am trying to get a g_timeout to work with orbit. I have looked through
> the gconf code, and kinda figured out to do it, but it seems very genaric.
> why is this code not in orbit itself?
> 
> also, a GMainLoop question.
> in gconfd, the global var main_loops is defined. Why does it exist? I
> spent the last few hours trying to figure out how GMainLoop works (there
> is like no dox on it), and it looks like there can only ever be one main
> loop, so why does main_loops exist? (or was this code copied out of gtk,
> the only other place I could find it?)

  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/glib/glib-the-main-event-loop.html

Regards,
                                        Owen