Re: trying to launch a dialog from outside the main gui thread by emiting a signal to the thread.

["Jim George" <jimgeorge gmail com>]

On 3/7/07, Kevin Lambert <kl lapis com> wrote:
> I ended up modifying my class such that the information for the dialog gets
> added to a vector and I added a timer which looks at the vector and if there
> is something new to be displayed it pops it off and launches the appropriate
> dialog, thus keeping everything happening within the GUI thread (or at least
> that is what I am assuming is happening now that the code works).
>
> Kevin

GLib already has GAsyncQueue for this. Usually, you can get away with
using g_idle_add, it's simpler.