Re: Threads & popup windows under mswin

[Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 16:24, Tim Evans wrote:
> 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.

This only works when you use non-blocking I/O calls (asynchronous I/O). 
GNET abstracts this nicely anyway, so why not use it.  His current
problem is that many things he is doing do block, and so g_idle_add
won't quite be sufficient.
-- 
Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>