Re: Help with a multi-threaded application. Spot a crash.

[jcupitt gmail com]

On 31 May 2012 07:11, Osmo Antero <osmoma gmail com> wrote:
> The actual code has also a LockedCounter (mutex controlled) object
> that feeds each thread with a unique sequence number. Only the thread
> with highest sequence number can tick and change the GUI, others will
> simply die away.

I expect you know, but this is not the recommended way to write
threaded GUIs with gtk. It will not be portable.

Best practice is to have a single "main" GUI thread doing all gtk_*()
calls. Worker threads can send data to the main GUI thread for display
with g_idle_add() and friends. You don't need any explicit locking if
you do it this way, which is nice.

John