Re: Is there a way to make this work?

[Thijs Assies <thijs_a gmx net>]

Thijs Assies wrote:

> Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
>
> > Hmm the age old problem ;)
> >
> >     I would add a thread to do the heavy stuff
> > and an IO channel for the child thread to comunicate
> > with the main GUI thread and update the clist with the data read in 
> > the g_io_channel_add_watch callback.
> >
> >     But you could do a number of things. just remember
> > that only one thread is allowed to update the GUI.
> >
> >     -Tristan
> >
> > Thijs Assies wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Hi, i've created a program, wich gets an XML file and stores the stuff
> > > into a clist. But when it gets the XML, and parses it. The program
> > > freezes. I can solve this using fork. But i cant update the clist 
> > > within
> > > a fork!
> > >
> > > Is there a way to keep the program running while getting ad parsing 
> > > the XML?
> > >
> > > thx.
> > >
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> well: when i fork the get and parse code it works. But it starts 
> adding to the clist when the pasing isn't complete yet! how can you 
> allow a child to write to the gtk widget? Or do you have an example of 
> what you mean?
> i created a thread wich get, parses the xml and updates the clist. But 
> it chrases, resulting in a zombie.
>
> this is the code i used:
> int timeout_handler(gpointer data)
> {
>  void **child_stack;
>  child_stack = (void **)g_malloc(16500);
>  clone(timeout_handler2, child_stack, CLONE_VM, NULL);
>  return 1;
> }
>
> timeouthandler2 take care of the stuff i want. but the moment it 
> started, ps aux showes me a zombie. gdb cant debug it! how can i fix 
> this?
>
>
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I've red the API reference and i created this:

int timeout_handler(gpointer data)
{
 GThread *thread1;
 g_thread_init(NULL);
 thread1 =   g_thread_create                 
((GThreadFunc)timeout_handler2,
                          NULL,
                          NULL,
                          NULL);
 return 1;
}

it workes, but the program still freezes when its busy!