Re: [gtk-list] Re: Threads with GTK

[Daniel Adler <dadler gwdg de>]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Daniel Adler wrote:
> 
> > i have some problems with using gtk efficient with threads... i heard
> > about the gpk-proxy but it does'nt hold a lot of gtk-wrappers i need to,
> > especially because i'm coding threads in components (gtk-widgets).
> >
> > up to now, i use to communicate between the main-gtk-thread and my
> > little working threads through idle_functions, but i think this is not
> > efficient.
> >
> > does anyone knows, how to signal the main-gtk-thread that the datas are
> > loaded (e.g. reading directory especially over ftp-links it's better not
> > to lockup the display :) ) by the read_dir_thread, so that the
> > main-gtk-thread can fill all the datas in clist.
> 
> You might want to investigate thread programming a bit more. Mutexes are a
> fairly basic concept :)
> 
> > and is there anythink planned to make gtk thread-safe or will this be
> > the gpk?
> 
> gtk+ 1.1.x includes a "I want to do gtk+ stuff" mutex, which makes it
> easier to use from different threads.

Does this mean, i only have to create a mutex, and if the
second/third... thread want to call
gtk stuff, it has to obtain the mutex-lock ? are there any special
routines in gtk 1.1 
(i use it at the moment for development) for global locking all
gtk-routines, or do i have
to lock/unlock the mutex each time in my main gtk-thread ?

-- 
so long,
plex