Re: GTK window and thread

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 05/02/2005 09:50:55 AM, Frederic Beck wrote:
> Hello
>
> Here's my problem : i have a daemon running in the background,  
> and i want it to show popups after some events.
>
> I'm new in using GTK, so i took a look at the tutorial, and i  
> managed to create the window and show it. The popup window is  
> closed when pressing on a button.
>
> As i don't want this popup to be blocking for the daemon, i  
> wanted to put it in a thread using pthread.

You don't need to use threads.  Just gtk_widget_show the popup  
window, with a signal-handler for the button-press--it'll return  
immediately.