Re: program design

["Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk gmail com>]

On 6/5/06, Hargobind Khalsa <khalsah gmail com> wrote:
> Take a look at this:
> http://gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ch18.html
> I think that may be what you are looking for, no threads required.

I don't see how that helps me.  I want my Update() function to update
the GUI each time it is called.

Joe

p.s. Is it possible to make the default reply-to address gtkmm-list gnome org?

> On 6/5/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com> wrote:
> >
>  Hi,
>
> Imagine you have a program with an Update() function.  This Update()
> function is called X times per second a non-gtkmm-related function.
>
> Also imagine that you have a gtkmm GUI.  Every time Update() is
> called, the GUI should be updated with information that's available
> from inside the Update() function.
>
> How would you set this up?  Would you have the Gtk stuff happening in
> a separate thread?  I suppose you'd have to...  How would you tell the
> gtk thread to update itself?  ( I'm fairly new to multithreaded
> program design, and gtk in general)
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
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