Re: gdk events - cunsumes much CPU time

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 16:29, Andreas Volz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used this in a gdk app to get the events:
>
> for (;;)
>   {
>     if ((event=gdk_event_get()))
>     {
>       if (event->type == GDK_BUTTON_PRESS)
>       {
>         switch (event->button.button)
>         {
>           /* left button pressed */
>         case 1:
>           start_app ("xterm");
>           break;
>
>           /* middle button pressed */
>         case 2:
>           start_app ("gExec2");
>           break;
>
>           /* right button pressed */
>         case 3:
>           start_app ("xsteak");
>           break;
>         }
>
>         printf("button press: button = %d\n", event->button.button);
>       }
>     }
>   }
>
> It works like it should, but there is a little problem. My app cunsumes
> more than 95% CPU time and this is to much ;-)
>
> Where is the problem? Is perhaps gdk_event_get() not the correct
> function for this problem?

What are you trying to do? Are you trying to write a GDK app
without using GTK+? Without using the GLib main loop...?

Regards,
                                        Owen