Re: Design for a game with Gtkmm as GUI and GLibmm for threads

[Niko Demmel <niko demmel gmx de>]

Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
>
>     Working thread:
>         Create new dispatcher
>         Connect my_dispatch_handler with some bound data to it
>         Invoke it
>
>     Main thread:
>         global or otherwise visible variable: the_signal
>         ...
>         my_dispatch_handler (...):
>              emit the_signal with data passed from another thread
>
> Thus, dispatcher is used only to cross thread boundaries and normal
> signal (which can be connected by whoever in normal way) used once message
> gets to the main thread.
>
>   

Ahh, I see. With that extra layer of another signal in the main thread,
that everyone can connect to it makes perfect sense.

Thanks a bunch,
Niko