Re: GtkListStore and Threads problems

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 06/14/2005 02:20:16 PM Tue, Lorena Salinas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is what I do inside the worker_thread function
> (create_and_start_worker_thread ()) every time I want to update
> the
> model:
>
>
> gdk_threads_enter();            /* get GTK thread lock */
>
> gtk_list_store_set (GTK_LIST_STORE (host_model), &iter,
>                         MYMODEL_COL_STATUS, STATUS_NORMAL,
>                 -1);
>
> gdk_threads_leave();            /* release GTK thread lock
> */

This may not be the cause of your current problem, but in this  
code you can't be sure that the GtkTreeIter is valid, because the  
lock has been dropped and reacquired.  Validating and using an  
iter while holding the lock is safer.