Re: Removing global variables

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 26 November 2014 at 13:52, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:

> > > You can run any number of event loops in a process. You can only run 1
> > > GTK main loop.
> >
> > So can I run one event loop in a thread, do my UI without having a
> > gtk_main_loop?
>
>
> first of all, if the host is written with GTK then it runs THE GTK main loop
> anyway, you shouldn't be attempting to create a new one (which would also be
> true in a "normal" process - you don't create more than 1 GTK main loop.
>
> event loops are a glib level abstraction/object. The GTK main loop is just a
> particular, special instance of a glib event loop inside a GTK application.

it's not even special: GTK+ will happily work if you just iterate the
GMainContext that is currently set as default.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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