Re: callbacks and locking

[Neil Hodge <neh attbi com>]

Hugo:

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:00, hugo hallqvist wrote:
> Hmm, I solved at least my problem now. I switched to Gtk2. It works
> beautifully now with regards to releasing gdk-lock inside a callback. I
> don't really know what the reason for this not being able to work in
> Gtk1.2, if it's a bug in Gtk1.2 or if the locking/thread-awareness in
> Gtk2 has improved so much. 
>
> The strange thing is that I did not change one line of code! I just
> changed the Makefile and it worked beautifully. Of course there is some
> porting left to do for example chars to UTF8. But as of now I think I
> will go with this option and require users to upgrade to Gtk2, rather
> then to mess with something that is obviously broken (or at least it is
> from my point of view).

Thanks for the response.  GTK2 is on my list, and now it may get moved
to the top of the list . . . :)  Thanks again.

Neil