Re: thread support in Windows: problem

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

fkater googlemail com wrote:

> Write wrapper functions for any gtk operation you'd like to execute from
> threads in a way that the thread calls a glib's idle function which does
> the real gtk work. Additionally (!) you need to lock gtk/gdk access by 
> the gds_threads_enter/leave functions -- since idle functions are not
> auto-locked by gtk (like signals are).
Well, if you set it up so all gtk/gdk functions end up being called by 
the main thread by using g_idle_add(), then there's no reason to call 
gdk_threads_init() and thus no need to use gdk_threads_enter/leave().  A 
bit simpler that way.
        -brian