Re: Threads

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:32:11 -0400
Craig Bakalian <craigbakalian verizon net> wrote:
[snip]
> Wait, just a minute here.  I just got home to 8 emails with the
> heading Re: Threads.
>
> First, can I put my code back the way it always worked, using 
> gdk_threads_enter() and gdk_threads_leave() and compile with 
> DISABLE_DEPRECATED in my makefile?

No, but that is irrelevant to your original posting, and to your
problem.

And to go back to my original posting, there is no ABI/API breakage as
someone had thought.

> Second, this application is for my desktop only.  I have no bug
> reports, no comments, no outside requirements, this app is only used
> by me.  So, anyway to get it to work on my desktop I will do.  I am
> currently writing a function that is called from the JACK callback
> the way Paul is recommending.   However, if I can just recompile with
> old code...

His suggestion was not, as far as I can see, version specific.  Anyway,
you are now headed in the right direction.

> Third, the app did crash with signal errors to the gtkTextBuffer, or 
> gtkTextView.  The signal error was "cannot find line number in 
> gtk_text_layout..." is what kept coming up, when, and this is key to 
> understanding this issue, when I removed the gdk_threads_enter() and 
> gdk_threads_leave() from the JACK callback.  This happened before 
> 13.10.  I had to put the gdk_threads_enter() and gdk_threads_leave()
> in the callback to stop the errors.  All was well, I was lucky, as
> Paul stated to me 3 times, until ubuntu 13.10.

Indeed.
 
Chris