Re: Is there a way to make this work?

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

what is in timeout_handler2 ?

every "timeout" you want to reperse
your xml and rebuild your CList (or something
close to that). if you call gtk_clist_* from
your timeout_handler2() function than your
missing the point. 

the point beeing:
> > >     But you could do a number of things. just remember
> > > that only one thread is allowed to update the GUI.

glib is thread aware. gtk is not thread safe.
use threads to do long batch jobs while using
your _main_ thread (the one containing gtk_main() )
to update the gui and do _short_ jobs. 

hijacking the gtk main loop will freeze the gui.
updating the gui from threads creates potential 
race conditions.

        -Tristan

here is some pseudo code to make things clearer.
(remember you'll need a method to know when
you should call g_thead_join())


/********** in child thread **************/
timeout_handler2()
{
        while (still_stuff_to_do) {
                do stuff;
                write result data to a communication channel;
        }
}


/********** in parent thread ***********/

create io channel;
spawn timeout_handler2;
g_io_channel_add_watch(channel...);


channel_io_cb() {
        read data;
        update CList with data read;

}