Re: Focus in event problem

["Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru>]

Paul Davis wrote:

> > I have a problem here with focus_in event.
> >
> > When my app is creating combobox widget, it is setting focus_in and 
> > focus_out events to perform some function.
> > For instance, one function filling dropdown list in separate thread, 
> > then inform GTK-thread to get this data and set it for my combobox. The 
> > problem is I have this assertion when moving into combobox with TAB-key:
> >    
>
> 1) are you using the gdk-level thread/mutex calls (gdk_threads_init(),
>     gdk_threads_enter(), gdk_threads_leave()).
> 2) most people find it simpler to ensure that only 1 thread
>      makes GTK+/GDK/Xlib calls.
>
> if you don't do one of these, you will get precisely the kinds of
> problems you are encountering.
>
> --p
>
>  
Well, actually, I am using gtkmm with dispatcher notification mechanism. 
So, all updates is going thru single GUI-thread.
The bad thig - when I removed thread creation in focus event and tried 
to do all things just in one GUI-thread I got same assertion.

I will separate this part of code out of my app and do some tests around 
it...

Regards,
-andrew