Function

Gtkevents_pending

Declaration [src]

gboolean
gtk_events_pending (
  void
)

Description [src]

Checks if any events are pending.

This can be used to update the UI and invoke timeouts etc. while doing some time intensive computation.

Updating the UI during a long computation

 // computation going on...

 while (gtk_events_pending ())
   gtk_main_iteration ();

 // ...computation continued

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE if any events are pending, FALSE otherwise.