Re: Multiple threads and gtk_main()

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 13:10 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
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> Make your threads add stuff to a single GAsyncQueue. Let an idle 
> function (or a timeout function) always run, that checks the GAsyncQueue 
> and does something if there is something to do, or simply returns if it 
> is empty. Wouldn't that work?

That would work with a timeout, but not with an idle function.  Using
g_idle_add() in this way would create a busy loop.

Chris