continuously drawing without events?

["Christian B. Westermann" <christian westermann phim unibe ch>]

Hi there
As a newbie I have maybe a simple, already answered question, so please
excuse what follows:
I'm trying to build a data-plotter, that must continuously show new data
on a xy-plot. All drawing examples that I've seen so far use
user-interface-events for drawing (simple-scribble and so on...). 
Is it possible to solve that problem without events, i.e to run a
function in the background that updates the plot with the incoming new
data after gtk_main() is called?
Chris
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