Re: Providing gtk_main() with asynchronous data

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 15:44 -0600, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> (not subscribed; please CC replies)
>
> I'm trying to find a way to provide my mainloop with asynchronous data
> from a thread.  I have read this:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2004-July/msg00181.html
>
> which describes how to use a GAsyncQueue and GSource to watch the queue
> for available data (and to have the thread wake up the mainloop when data
> is available).  A callback is run in the context of gtk_main when
> data is available.  It works perfectly except for one show-stopper
> problem:

Note that using a custom GSource here is perhaps overcomplicated. The
simplest method is:

 g_idle_add (function_to_call_in_main_thread, data_to_pass_to_function);
 
(Or use g_idle_add_full() if you want to prioritize the callback higher
than the default idle priority.)

Regards,
                                                Owen