Re: Updating GUI during long operation

[Nicola Fontana <ntd entidi it>]

Il Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:24:01 -0700 Kip Warner <kip thevertigo com> scrisse:

> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 22:18 -0700, Simon Feltman wrote:
>
> > Similarly, use
> > Gdk.threads_add_idle instead of GObject.idle_add for scheduling GUI updates
> > from worker threads. The necessity of these is still somewhat unclear to me
> > at the moment though.
>
> I'll give that a try. I'm not sure what the difference is either, but
> the link above seems to recommend it too so it can't hurt to try.

gdk_threads_add_idle() is only a convenient way of calling g_idle_add()
without the need of decorating the callback code with a
gdk_threads_enter()/gdk_threads_leave() pair:

http://developer.gnome.org/gdk/stable/gdk-Threads.html#gdk-threads-add-idle-full

The code of the dispatcher can be found here:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gdk/gdk.c?id=3.8.1#n779

Ciao.
-- 
Nicola