Need to interrupt to check for mouse movement

[Jp Calderone]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:42:32 -0000, Donn Cave <donn at drizzle.com> wrote:
>Quoth Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid>:
>| Christopher Subich <spam.csubich+block at block.subich.spam.com> writes:
>| > > In the particular case of wxWidgets, it turns out that the *GUI*
>| > > blocks for long periods of time, preventing the *network* from
>| > > getting attention.  But I agree with your position for other
>| > > toolkits, such as Gtk, Qt, or Tk.
>| >
>| > Wow, I'm not familiar with wxWidgets; how's that work?
>|
>| Huh?  It's pretty normal, the gui blocks while waiting for events
>| from the window system.  I expect that Qt and Tk work the same way.
>
>In fact anything works that way, that being the nature of I/O.
>But usually there's a way to add your own I/O source to be
>dispatched along with the UI events -- the toolkit will for
>example use select() to wait for X11 socket I/O, so it can also
>respond to incoming data on another socket, provided along with a
>callback function by the application.
>
>Am I hearing that wxWindows or other popular toolkits don't provide
>any such feature, and need multiple threads for this reason?
>

Other popular toolkits do.  wxWindows doesn't.

Jp