Re: Multi-threaded GTK+

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> writes: 
> How well is multi-threaded GTK+ supposed to work? Are there real
> applications (that might otherwise be useful and portable to Win32)
> that do GDK operations on the same windows from different threads?

For 1.2 at least it does work pretty well. The Red Hat installer found
a bunch of bugs in it at first and now it's fixed up. I don't know of
many apps you could test with though, in fact I can't think of any
except the installer. Maybe ask on gtk-list if anyone is writing
one. ;-)

> Would it be a big drawback if, for instance, we would document that in
> multi-threaded GTK+ programs expected to run on Win32, all GTK+ calls
> should be made in one thread (using gtk_idle_add() or similar if
> necessary).

I think it should be considered a misfeature that needs fixing, yes. 
But better to document it than just leave people to find out. 
(There's a "win32" section in the reference manual I think, should add
win32-specific notes in there.)

Havoc