threading

[Tom Stanis <stanis cs wisc edu>]

I want to be able to use multiple threads of execution in my gtk project, 
however, X is not ammused when one thread attempts to destroy and window,
and the other is processing events.  I thought I might be able to get
around this problem using some sort of messaging, but the gtk thread (the one
that handels all gtk work, in order to keep it non-concurrent), is stuck
in the gtk_main(), so I can't do my own messaging, I have to use something that
gtk can provide.  I looked at the gtk signals, but they seem to be created
specifically for callbacks, and it seems rather cryptic how one might use them
if you weren't writing a widget.  Anyone have any ideas on how to deal with
this?  Can you use gtk signals for app level purposes?

--Tom Stanis
<stanis@cs.wisc.edu>