Re: using threads with GTK+

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
<snip>
> Thread 1 uses a new event source in its the main loop which pops events
> from a GAsyncQueue.  Once a working thread finishes it jobs, it pushes a
> structure onto the queue, calls g_main_context_wakeup() to wake thread 1
> up if needed, and terminates.
>
> This does not seem to be very hard to implement, but before starting on
> it, i would like to be sure i didn't miss some more simple way of
> implementing the schema above.

You're starting out on the right foot.

    While it /may/ be "more simple" to use a named pipe
as an asynchronous queue and an GIOChannel as your GSource
that wouldn't be very portable and simply smells "hack-like".

In other words; your aproach is the sanest I've heard of.

Cheers,
                -Tristan