[Glade-users] uni- versus multi-threaded gtk

[pdbuchan at yahoo.com (David Buchan)]

Thanks everybody.
Great advice and support.

Dave

--- On Sun, 6/26/11, Alexey <virtualex at linuxoid.net> wrote:

> From: Alexey <virtualex at linuxoid.net>
> Subject: Re: [Glade-users] uni- versus multi-threaded gtk
> To: "Russ Mannex" <russ at mannex.com>
> Cc: "David Buchan" <pdbuchan at yahoo.com>, glade-users at lists.ximian.com
> Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011, 1:43 AM
> On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 21:51 -0700,
> Russ Mannex wrote:
> > Thank you for clarifying, Alexey. Most of my coding
> has been very
> > "old-school" stuff, and most of my experience with
> event loops was in
> > X-Windows. Your recommendation makes more sense!
>
> I mean, do not hesitate to use gtk_events_pending() if you
> have to. With
> "old-school" stuff it could be matter of ten minutes to
> insert couple of
> lines vs. days to rewrite and debug the algorithm in case
> it involves
> deeply hidden recursion or something like that. Use your
> own judgment.
> But for brand new code I'd use idle function for sure.