Marcel's right -- since your data's coming in slowly during the popen,
you'd either have to use a thread.. or you might be able to avoid threads
by using Fl::add_fd() with popen() as shown here:
http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/#add_fd
This is one of the few instances where add_fd() should work across platforms
correctly.
Marcel Dejean wrote:
> Call popen() from another thread, so that the GUI can continue to run().
>
> On 3/1/09, Greg Ercolano <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> I've been using FLTK to wrapper very complex engineering calculations..
>> See Fl::check():
>> http://fltk.org/documentation.php/doc-1.1/Fl.html#Fl.check
>>
>> Call Fl::check(); within your calculation so that FLTK
>> can have some CPU to keep the interface alive.
>>
>> Or, run your calculation in a child thread, so that
>> Fl::run() can run in the main thread to keep the interface alive.
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