Re: XForms: Newbie Question

Alex Rojo (alex@picmatic.es)
Thu, 22 May 1997 08:23:41 +0200

To subscribers of the xforms list from Alex Rojo <alex@picmatic.es> :

Philippe Steindl wrote:
>
> To subscribers of the xforms list from Philippe Steindl <psteindl@webshuttle.ch> :
>
> Hello,
>
> this is a newbie question: Since fl_do_forms takes over control, how do
> I create an application, that
> also itself needs to constalty watch something? I had in mind a MIDI
> watcher, that watches /dev/midi
> if there's bytes coming and displays that by flashing a 'light' (A box)
> on an xforms form. So I need
> to constantly watch the midi file descriptor and at the same time have
> the xform running .... How do I
> do that?
>

Look for fl_check_forms() in the Xforms manual.

ALEX ROJO
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