When to use thread/fork?

[Miguel Angel Polo <miguel polo telefonica net>]

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Hi all.

One of my application actions is time consuming, and I want to be
lauched in a separate process/thread, with it's own dialog and its own
progress bar. I don't want the GUI to get freezed waiting that action to
complete (ugly!)

So, what's the best way to get this? Must I use glibmm threads? Maybe
forking is enough?? Maybe i must not fork... maybe it can be done using
one single thread... I'm asking because related documentation is very
sparse, and I'm lost.

What are your advices?







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