Re: Pthreads with GTK 1.2

[Philip Van Hoof <spamfrommailing freax org>]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 15:09, Boris wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to show/hide a window from a separated thread. This thread was created with pthread_create 
> function. The show action works fine.  The problem is the hide action, it never launchs, my window
> is visible all the time.

Add 

g_thread_init(NULL);

at the top of the int main() function



> Here is some of my code, the thread function :
>
> gpointer verificar()
> {
>       int h=0;
>       int cargo=0;
>
>       while (1)
>       {
>               h = fileexists("/myfile");  
>               if (h)
>               {
>                       if (!cargo)
>                       {
>                               do_args_tag = gtk_idle_add(do_args, (gpointer)0);   //load the file
>                               cargo = 1;
>                       }
>                       gtk_widget_show(window);
>               }
>               else
>               {
>                               gtk_widget_hide(window);
>                               cargo=0;
>               }
>       }
>       pthread_exit(0);
> }
>
> main( ...)
> {
>     ....
>     pthread_t t1;
>     pthread_create(&t1,NULL,verificar,NULL);
>     ...
>
>     gtk_main();
> }
>
> Any help will be appreciated
>
> Thanks in advance and best regards
>
> Boris
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