On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:33:36PM -0400, Ivan Matveich wrote:
> I'm writing a gtk program that must receive data through a tcp
> connection and react to it immediately.
> 
> What's the best way to implement this?
> Can gtk call me back when data is available on a socket?
> How do I use Marshal without blocking?

You can use the Glib.IO interface to create a glib io_channel from
your TCP socket, and then use add_watch to associate a callback with
it.  Your socket will then be polled as part of the Glib main event loop.

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