Re: GTK and threads

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:00 +0200, Bernhard Jung wrote:

> Is this behavior normal to GTK+? I know in Java/Swing and .NET/Windows Forms 
> manipulation of GUI widgets has to be done in a special thread. Is there a 
> similar concept in GTK+? Or maybe something is wrong with my code?

You have 2 choices in GTK:

	a) only do GTK/GDK/backend operations in a single thread, with the
exception of calling g_idle_add()
        b) use GDK thread locking primitives around every
GTK/GDK/backend operation, in every thread

Most people have found that (a) is preferable to (b).

--p