Re: Threads & popup windows under mswin

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Michael Torrie wrote:

> The problem is that I can't tell you exactly how to do all this (the
> inter-thread communication) under windows.

The easiest way to do it under GTK+ is g_idle_add.  Called from your 
processing thread, it will tell the main loop to run the given function 
as soon as the main loop isn't doing anything else.  Make sure that the 
function that you pass it returns FALSE so that it only gets called once.

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Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
http://www.aranz.com/