Re: GTK app with scrolled window crashing trying to show a widget inside

[Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 gmail com>]

On 12/30/2011 06:08 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 12/30/2011 05:52 AM, David NeÄas wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 01:28:32PM +0100, Moritz Renftle wrote:
> > > i want to make one of those widgets visible from
> > > another thread
> >
> > Use glib.idle_add() in that other thread to subsequently execute the
> > actual Gtk+ code in the thread running the Gtk+ main loop.
>
> http://unpythonic.blogspot.com/2007/08/using-threads-in-pygtk.html
>
> It used to be that threading issues came up every week on the list.  As
> David says, the recommended way is using idle_add.  However if you use
> gdk locks appropriately, on Linux you can call Gtk calls directly from
> threaded code.
>
> http://www.pardon-sleeuwaegen.be/antoon/python/page0.html
>
> But since this won't work so well on Windows, the idle_add() technique
> is recommended as it is most safe and most portable.

You may check out http://www.iki.fi/tml/fosdem-2006.pdf about gtk-win32
and threads.

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Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 gmail com>