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request: uiMainStepPoll()

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#146 opened on Jun 16, 2016

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Description

split from #95 a way to combine uiMainStep() with select() or poll()

on GTK+ and OS X this should be fine

on Windows I don't know one thing:

What would the equivalent of a select() be on Windows? It appears MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx() does not accept file or socket handles. Does it have to do with OVERLAPPED? I see GLib accepts file handles on Windows...

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Research direction
Investigate how to combine the main UI step with I/O polling on Windows. Research MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx and how GLib and other libraries achieve this. Then implement the function on all platforms.
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