Use of select() to poll a file (device)

[Richard Danter]

> RD> How can I do this within the wxWidgets event loop?
>
>  There is no good way to do it with wx 2.8. The best I can suggest is to
> use a separate thread for IO. If you're not comfortable with using threads,
> you can try to multiplex select and GUI events in the main thread by either
> using idle events or dispatching GUI events when select times out but this
> will never be anything more than an ugly hack.

Threads it is then :)

>
>  In 2.9 you can/will be able to add an FD to the main event loop but it's
> still work in progress.

Thanks for the help!
Rich