Re: [gtkmm] trouble with redrawing screen

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 22:33, B.Hakvoort wrote:
> Very informative response :^)
>
> I solved it by starting the "unknown amount of time task" as a thread
> and running pulsing in the main window.

I assumed that you knew that GTK+ (and indeed X in general) is not written to 
be thread safe?  If not, you have a lot of code rewriting to do (assuming 
your application is multi-threaded).

It is also FAQ 4.12.