Re: Multiple threads and drawing

["Milosz Derezynski" <internalerror gmail com>]

This is very hard to answer, but as a general rule and probably
approximation to the truth you should avoid any calls into Gtk+ not
using the GUI/main thread.

2008/6/18 Germán Diago <germandiago gmail com>:

>Gtk::Label::set_text() definitely causes a redraw of the label in question. Gtk::Table::attach() will probably cause an immediate redraw of the Table in >question as well as the new child. You should check your code for GUI calls from a non-main thread.

Is it specified anywhere which operations imply redrawing? Because
there's a lot overhead in coding all GUI things in the GUI thread.