Should there be a way to query if an event queue is empty?

[Bill Spitzak]

You can call dispatch_pending "last", ie as part of the dispatch 
function. It's in a loop, so doing something at the end of the loop is 
the same as doing it at the start.

On 07/26/2013 05:30 AM, Neil Roberts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [I sent this yesterday too, but I accidentally used the wrong address
> and it got stuck in the moderator queue so I'm resending it]
>
> I was wondering whether we should add a function like
> wl_event_queue_empty() to query whether there are any pending events in
> the queue. This would make it easier to integrate with a GLib-style main
> loop more cleanly.
>
> A source on the GLib main loop works with a ‘prepare’ function that is
> called before blocking in poll which sets the fds and the time to wait
> on. When the poll is complete, if those conditions are met then a
> ‘dispatch’ function will be called. The source wouldn't normally be
> expected to do any work during the prepare function which means that all
> of the events should be handled in the dispatch function. I don't think
> there's any way to do this with the current Wayland API because you have
> to call wl_display_dispatch_pending before blocking in poll, which means
> you have to do it in the prepare. This could end up processing events
> and calling callbacks which the application might not be expecting to
> handle at this point.
>
> If there was a way to query whether the event queue is empty, then the
> prepare function could return TRUE which means it is immediately ready.
> GLib would then call poll with a zero timeout so that it would wake up
> immediately and the call to wl_display_dispatch_pending could be delayed
> to the dispatch callback.
>
> The Cogl Wayland backend would benefit from this too. Currently Cogl
> just calls wl_display_dispatch_pending in the prepare but this somewhat
> goes against our promise that we won't call any callbacks outside of
> cogl_poll_renderer_dispatch().
>
> http://is.gd/06hbob
>
> Regards,
> - Neil
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