Re: Thread programming

[Tim Müller <zen18864 zen co uk>]

On Monday 16 June 2003 17:32, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:

Hi,

> This could work,
>
>    - Create a GQueue and a GMutex to handle the queue.
>    - in your main (GUI updating) thread, create a g_timeout_add
>      function and every once and a while, come and check the queue like so
>      ...
>      g_mutex_lock(queue_mutex);
>      /* process data in queue */
>      g_mutex_unlock(queue_mutex);
>      ....
>
>      - in your child thread; when you have ready data; lock your mutex,
>      add data to the queue and unlock mutex.

There's also GAsyncQueue, which does the same thing, but is slightly more 
convenient to use IMHO.

Cheers
-Tim