Re: [gtkmm] Re: pthreads with gtk/gtkmm

[Enrico Costanza <ec142 york ac uk>]

Paul Davis wrote:

> > > My problem can be easily described as a producer-consumer problem. The 
> > > producer uses gtkmm to display its status and for some Adjustments; 
> > > the consumer produces sounds according to the producer results.
> > >      
>
> i don't really understand the problems you think you are facing. for
Probably the my problems are coming from inexperience (and also trying 
to convert an existing program to multithreading).

> reference, my current main project generally has 9 threads running,
> only one of which does GUI work, but 5 of which need to change aspects
> of the GUI display. i don't use the Dispatcher because i'm stuck with
> gtkmm1.2 for now, but i use a very similar home-grown mechanism (it
> might even have been part of the inspiration for the Dispatcher, but
> i'm sure enough to claim that).
>
> --p
>  

Where shall I call kit.run from?
If I place it in a pthread, I get a segmentation fault.

Using gtkmm1.2 shall I use gthreads or can use pthreads (as I am doing 
now?). What does glib add to pthreads?

Enrico