Re: GTK app misbehaving. (main thread blocking)

[Tim Müller <zen18864 zen co uk>]

> > Tim Müller wrote:
> > GLib, in particular the GLib main loop stuff, is thread-safe, so when you
> > do a simple g_idle_add() or g_timeout_add() from your work thread, the
> > dispatch will actually be happening from the main context/thread. That's
> > the easiest way to get stuff across to the main thread.

Just to correct my unfortunate phrasing before anyone else does: of course 
GLib as a whole isn't thread safe (data structures etc. are not as far as I 
know), but the GMainLoop/GMainContext stuff is.

Cheers
 -Tim