Re: I lose in threads + GTK+, looking for help

[Reed Hedges <reed mobilerobots com>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> I wrote:
>  > > You can't use GTK+ from multiple threads on Win32.
>
> Reed Hedges writes:
>  > Can you give some more details Tor? I've done it, so then maybe my
>  > program is buggy and I don't know it yet :)
>
> Search the list archives, this has been discussed several times ;)

Sorry, archive searching is still broken (at least trying to search at 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/ which is the only archive 
search I have found so far for gtk-app-devel-list).

> Basically, calling some GTK+ APIs from multiple threads might work,
> but calling others, or calling them at different times in the lifespan
> of a GTK widget, certainly won't. (Either the API has no effect, or
> you get a deadlock, or something else happens.) 

OK, thats what I meant by my program being bugging and me not realizing it yet. 
So far I haven't seen any evidence of any of these problems, but thanks for 
confirming that indeed, they could pop up at any time.


> I am not going to do
> any exhaustive testing to find out exactly what works and what not,
> it's simpler to just state that it isn't supported and doesn't work in
> general.

Yeah, that's pretty reasonable I think (for the case of GTK on Win32 certainly).

Reed