Re: [sdljava-users] push_event / user_event

[Ivan Z. G. <iva...@ya...>]

I will implement this soon then.  Let me have a look.  I don't think it 
will be too difficult.

-Ivan/

Wouter wrote:

> 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
>
>
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