UNTITLED LOCAL UNTITLED
NAMEglutMainLoopEvent — Dispatches all pending events.
LIBRARY
OpenGLUT - mainloop
SYNOPSIS
#include <openglut.h>
void
glutMainLoopEvent(void);
DESCRIPTION
The general outline of this function is to first drain the queue of win‐
dowsystem events, in most cases dispatching each as it is found. After
the queue is empty, we check for timer-based events, coalesced window
events (e.g., redisplays), and windows that need to be closed.
The cross-reference section for this function's documentation should ide‐
ally contain every callback, but the list would be tediously long and
prone to omissions.
CAVEATS
Does not necessarily dispatch events that are received after this
function starts processing.
At first glance, this function may not seem to afford any new capability
that you couldn't get with an idle callback or glutLeaveMainLoop(). How‐
ever there are other GLUT-like libraries that may have their own window
event processing loops. Having glutMainLoopEvent() allows you to ask
OpenGLUT to do its work in a batch, then return to whatever processing
the other library (or libraries) require.
SEE ALSOglutIdleFunc(3)glutLeaveMainLoop(3)glutMainLoop(3)
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