Re: Opening a GtkWindow from a Thread

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:07 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> vbutty12 netscape net writes:
>  > I am desperatly trying to open a dialog box from a thread on
>  > Windows XP.
>
> Using GTK+ from multiple threads doesn't work on Windows, see bug
> #60620. (And doing that is usually considered bad design anyway, I
> think.) Do all your GTK+ calls from the main thread. Use g_idle_add()
> to schedule GUI that happens in the main thread from other
> threads.

Does this mean that gdk_threads_enter and _leave doesn't work on
Windows? Auwch ...


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