threads

[Ian Strascina <istrasci cs nmsu edu>]

Hi, I'm developing a simply GUI using gtkmm and I need to use threads... 
I've done a little research and found that GTK+ and gtkmm are not thread 
safe...  After a little more, I found two different ways to go about 
this:

1 - use GDK threads (as per 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Threads.html)

2 - using c++ classes, e.g. those within the Glib namespace -- 
Glib::{Thread,Mutex,...}  (as per 
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/group__Threads.html)


Is either of these methods better than the other, or are they similar 
(perhaps even display a "wrapper-wrappee" relationship)...???

Thanks in advance...!!!

	- Ian

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