[sdljava-users] push_event / user_event

[Wouter <wo...@pa...>]

Hello,

I've read that push_event is on the TODO list (although the docs seem to 
imply it is already implemented). What is the progress on this? I also 
read the remark about push_event making sense or not. My answer would be 
yes!
My problem is the following: I am monitoring some activity (utilisation 
on a multicluster) and want to refresh the screen every 5 seconds 
(polling free nodes is not something you want to do every millisecond, 
or second for that matter). Now there's no real user input and because 
it's running on a shared machine i dont want to use pollEvent cause that 
would create a busy waiting loop which hogs too much cpu. I could 
introduce a sleep of 5 seconds of course but that would mean my program 
will be unresponsive for long periods.
So what i'd like to do is use waitevent and have a seperate thread which 
will push a userevent into the queue every 5 secs. (Where did 
SDL_AddTimer go by the way?) If you guys dont want to spent any time on 
this I would gladly do it myself but I have no experience with Swig, nor 
much time to get into it..

Regards,
Wouter