Re: Gtk+: multi-threaded or not ?

[Siddu <siddu sjce gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Pierre Wieser <pwieser trychlos org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Reading this list, I see some questions which talk about "threads": main
> thread, event thread, and so on.
>
> I was not conscious Gtk+ was multithreaded. I'm conscious of asynchronous
> code with the mail loop and idle function (which are rather in Glib, I
> believe ?), but really not of multithread.
>
> So is Gtk multithreaded, or not ?
>
> Because if it is, I will have to deal with mutex, semaphores and all the
> usual soup!!
Gtk+ is single threaded library

In order to confirm  you can run the standard hello world gtk program and
look up in the

/proc/<pid>/status | grep Threads  #field for the number of threads

but if you want the thread support in your application it  would be possible
with gthreads

CMIIAW

Regards,
Sid



> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Pierre
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