Re: main loop, threads and so on?

[Ian Bell <ian redtommo com>]

On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 5:21 pm, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Where can I find a good manual, tutorial to understand how the mainloop
> is working, what all the things of
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html
> are doing?
>
> How I can work with that.
>
> In my special case I have a function which has nothing todo with the
> gui to call, but the function calling that function must wait until it
> is finished.  It takes long time, so the gui is not responsible for the
> user.  so my function (which is calling the function) has to run in the
> backgound.

Probably the most elegant way to do this is to run the function in its own 
thread.

Ian