Re: gtk_window_show/hide

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Nob Kato" <nobkato@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp> writes: 
> void *signal_handler ( int sig)
> {
>   switch (sig) {
>   case SIG_SHOW:
>     gtk_window_show (main_window);
>     printf ("SHOW\n");
>     break;
>   case SIG_HIDE:
>     gtk_window_hide (main_window);
>     printf ("HIDE\n");
>     break;
>   }
>   return NULL;
> }

You can't call these functions from a signal handler. It will break.

You want to use pipes or something instead of signals, probably. Or in 
your signal handler, write to a pipe, which wakes up another thread
via an input handler (gdk_input_add() or g_io_add_watch()).

Havoc