Re: gdk events - cunsumes much CPU time

[Andreas Volz <andreas brachttal net>]

Am Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:37:40 -0300 schrieb Leandro A. F. Pereira:

> Quoted by a squadron of trained droids
> For `Andreas Volz <andreas brachttal net>' 
> On Friday, 27 June 2003 (18:29):
>
> > Where is the problem? Is perhaps gdk_event_get() not the correct
> > function for this problem?
>
>       It seems to be the correct function, however you need to wait
>       some msec before
> getting the next event. So, before the last bracket, you can add a
> call to usleep (see the man page for more information) -- one or two
> msec should be sufficient.

Ok, thanks! This works very great, no I've 0% CPU time while no events
are there.

But top sais me that my app uses 0,8 MB memory. I think this is much for
a gdk app with only 50 lines at the moment. How could I reduce the
memory need of my gdk application? Or is this normal with gdk?

thanks
Andreas