Re: [gtkmm] multi threading

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 14:01, Paul Davis wrote:
> >I'm looking for someone that can tell me how I can use the gtk-- GUI in
> >a multi threading program. For some reason no GUI toolkit available
> >supports threads (I wonder why).
>
> the preferred method is to limit all use of gtkmm/GTK+/GDK/Xlib
> functions to a single thread. when other threads want work done, they
> send a request to the GUI thread via a pipe, which is hooked into the
> main event loop of the GUI toolkit.

Paul, I guess it's time you wrote an FAQ entry for us:
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-faq.html

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Murray Cumming
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