Re: Threads !!!

[Chris <chris starforge co uk>]

Soeren Sandmann wrote:


> In fact, the glib mainloop has good support for this design. Just use
> g_idle_add (function_that_does_updating, data). This way only the
> thread that runs the mainloop will do any updating. You don't even
> have to worry about locking, as g_idle_add() will do the necessary
> locking for you.

Thanks for that, I didn't know about that (I've never written a 
multithreaded GTK program where several threads need access to the UI)

Chris
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