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List:       gtk-app-devel
Subject:    Re: GDK + GLib main loop
From:       Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel.rodriguez () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-23 5:58:37
Message-ID: b85da50e0907222258r258d9dc4r83b8652122ba06c8 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Mihai Draghicioiu <
mihai.draghicioiu@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd rather avoid the overhead of GTK+. My other choices were SDL and glut
> (and maybe others), but none of those offer the features of GDK (and
> GLib!).
>
> I have thought about using GTK+, and it's just pointless overhead, because
> I'm going to use my own (OpenGL-based) UI library. Besides, it's more fun
> this way :)

I see. You like it the hard way ;)


> Emmanuel: yes, i know about the examples directory, and I checked there for
> a GDK-only example, but didn't find one... Thanks for the code, but it's
> not
> what I need :P
>
> Try to see if you can register the same callbacks to the GDK objects. Then
you can still use the glib even loop. Instead of doing gtk_main() you will
need to create an event loop your self:

GMainLoop *loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE);
g_main_loop_run(loop);

-- 
Emmanuel Rodriguez
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