Re: Threads and main-loops

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Russell Shaw wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Hi,
> > Thanks, is clearer now. I needed to have a mental model (i think visual)
> > of threading and loop contexts to design the overall architecture of 
> > my app.
>
>     Note that you can create multiple threads and run GMainLoops in each
> thread, but its a little tricky.
>
> Functions which create and manipulate event sources under the hood
> need to be avoided (i.e. g_timeout_add, g_idle_add, g_io_add_watch) as
> they assume the default GMainContext (which is OK if you intend to queue
> events to the default GMainLoop from another thread), instead; you would
> need to use the slightly more complex varients (i.e. g_idle_source_new
> in conjunction with g_source_attatch et al).
>
> Cheers,
>                                 -Tristan

Thanks. I figured out the architecture of how to do a decent cad/drawing program 
of any type in gtk. Been wondering about it for a year. I have much abandoned 
code from old drawing program experiments;)