Re: GTK+ app hang on win32

["Daniel K. O." <danielosmari yahoo com br>]

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

> 2. As my app is running, it uses glade to load various tabs into a global
> gtk_notebook. after each glade file is processed, it tries to call
> gtk_notebook_append_page() and under win32 this call HANGS indefinitely, task
> manager reports 0% cpu usage, so it doesn't appear to be stuck in a race)
>  
Looks like a deadlock.

> NOTE regarding #2.  the tab loading is run from within a thread that is wrapped
> by calls to gdk_threads_enter() and gdk_threads_leave().  This works flawlessly
> on linux, freebsd and OS-X,  but hangs at the above location on windows (Win2k
> SP4).  Is this a GTK+ bug in the gtk_notebook or glib itself on win32?
>  
Search the bugzilla and the mailing list archives ("threads" is a good 
search keyword), and you'll see that 
gdk_threads_enter()/gdk_threads_leave() shouldn't be used on Windows to 
do GUI calls. Use g_idle_add() to do the work from the main thread.



Daniel K. O.