Re: [gtk-list] Re: Making gtk thread-safe

[Jay Painter <jay a42 com>]

> Hmm.. this may be a silly question, but why would you create an
> application that had multiple threads using gtk ?  I would think the most
> reasonable way to use threads in most programs would be to have one for
> the gui, and others for doing I/O, processing tasks or what have you,
> using IPC between them. 

Here's an example of somthing I'm doing that I'd like to use threads for:
In my e-mail client, I have to fill a long list of e-mail messages,
sometime 200-400 messages in a list.  This takes about 6-10 seconds on my
Pentium.  I would really like to launch a thread to fill the list and run
a status bar, and meanwhile the window kept itself re-painted and
menus/sections responded when clicked (and I want to eat my cake too!!!).

It would also be nice to dedicate a thread which just took care for
certain standard events like redrawing and re-sizing windows, so that
those functions would never be blocked.