threaded network

["Aldrin Martoq A." <agm cec uchile cl>]

Hi. We are writing an app that reads from a server via a socket.

We use a primary function that does all the job. But when the program is
in this function, the program's GUI is freezed until the function ends. I
would like that the statusbar of the mainapp show some status and progress
while the program is communicating outside.

I would like to know if there is already an approach about this in some
gnome/gtk/glib/whatever libraries. I've looked gtk_idle and friends
functions, but I'm not sure if I can implement all this network code in
idles or timeouts functions. (At least, not elegantly).

I also looked pthreads, but I'm afraid of going un-portable (The info
pages talks frecuently about linux specific issues). What should I use for
this task?

Aldrin.            "Caution! Under no circumstances confuse the mesh with the
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