Re: gtk2 and windows xp

[Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>]

(Re-added gtk-app-devel-list to Cc. Discussions that start on a list
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Yogesh M writes:
> Gthread not supported in windows?

I did not say that. Gthread works fine. It's using GDK from multiple
threads that doesn't work.

> then how does the thread is executed seperately while execution
> continues the mainloop.

Yes, you can use multiple threads. You just must make sure all calls
to GDK (and by extension, GTK) happen only in the main thread. Call
g_timeout_add() from a worker thread to schedule a function to be
called in the main thread.

--tml