Re: Multi-threaded UI Freezes on GDK Call

["Michael R. Head" <burner suppressingfire org>]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:46 -0500, Michael McCann wrote:
> Ahh, ok. How else can I accomplish my goal, then? I need to give GTK the 
> lock, as I'm calling GDK from another function not in the main GTK loop. 
> I tried leaving out gdk_threads_enter()/leave() in the CPU-intensive 
> function, but X gives me errors.

Well, I guess what you need to do is to separate out the CPU intensive
bits of the function from the widget manipulation bits...

my_function() {
compute_real_hard();

gdk_threads_enter();
update_ui();
gdk_threads_leave();

}

Or something like that.

mike

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