Re: GTK Error handling..

["Champ Clark III [Softwink]" <champ softwink com>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:22:56PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> If all you want is a popup, then you might as well create a new process
> instead of a new thread. There is no advantage of using a thread as it does
> not seem like you want to pass any info between the window and the
> monitoring loop. Further, the way you described it, if more than one event
> occurs, then you will be spawning two threads that does calls into GUI. This
> is a big no-no as gtk is not multi-threaded, and only a single thread may do
> graphics related calls.

        First off,  thanks for all the responses. 

        The only information that needs to be passed is from the
"monitor loop" (the alert information) to the "thread" that creates the
"popup" window.   That part is complete,  but considering the error 
handling,   I'm reconsidering how I'm doing this.    It looks like 
I'll probably create a new process to deal with the "popup". 

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