Re: Thread communication

[G Hasse <gh raditex se>]

On 13 Feb 2002, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 17:39, Lennartsson, Andreas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using Gtk 1.2. My application main and a communication thread. I spawn
> > the communication thread just before I call gtk_main. My idea was to emit a
> > emit a signal int the communication thread, using gtk_signal_emit_by_name.

Why use a thread at all? Thread is usefull only on multiprocessor systems
or in systmes with problems notifying on events on filedescriptors (eg
Windows) In Unix you do poll or select, and in gtk you do a

gdk_input_add( fd, GDK_INPUT_READ, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(file_function),
&cmdinfo );

(Where fd could be a socket). If you have a lot of communication your
design should go into an arrangement where you have several processes.

GH

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