Re: Threads and idle functions

[Igor Chetverovod <chetverovod gmail com>]

Hi David,
probably you should use macros:
gdk_threads_enter ()
gdk_threads_leave ().

Best regards,
Igor


2012/7/3, David Buchan <pdbuchan yahoo com>:
> My understanding is that child threads must never alter the UI in any way.
>
> If I have a program which spawns a child thread to download some data and I
> want to be able to have a dialog pop up should an error occur, is it correct
> to say that I need an idle function to be running concurrently to monitor
> some global variable which would contain the status (set by the download
> thread), and then the idle function would create the dialog pop-up?
>
> Put another way, if only the GTK+ main iteration is allowed to alter the
> GUI, then how does someone get information out of a child thread and to the
> UI?
>
> Dave
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