Re: main loop, threads and so on?

[Martin Klaffenboeck <martin klaffenboeck gmx at>]

Am 2003.06.07 21:27 schrieb(en) Ian Bell:
> 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.

I'll try that.  What do I have to do?

I thought about the following:

int main (argc argv)

gdk_threads_init();

gdk_threads_enter ();
gtk_main();
gdk_threads_leave ();

and in my thread using always gdk_threads_enter and ..._leave for every 
gtk_treestore_append ..._set functions.

When I use gdk_threads, what is important here.  Do I have to lock 
every gtk_function ?

Martin

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