Re: How to send event to gtk main thread from another thread.

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Tapan Satpathy Ansuman-A19108 wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I want to post event from another thread created using g_thread_create
> function to the gtk_main loop.
>  
> Is there anyway to do so?

One very simple way to do it is to use g_idle_add.  Just do something like:

  static gboolean
  on_subthread_event (gpointer data)
  {
    // do something with gui
    return FALSE;
  }

    // in subthread
    ...
    g_idle_add (on_subthread_event, data);
    ...

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Tim Evans
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