Re: GTK Error handling..

[Jaroslav Šmíd <jardasmid gmail com>]

New process, use g_spawn_with_pipes (or how is it called) and just pass 
it through pipe.

On 11/24/2010 02:35 PM, Champ Clark III [Softwink] wrote:
> 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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