Re: Multiple threads and drawing

From: "Milosz Derezynski" <internalerror gmail com>
To: "Germán Diago" <germandiago gmail com>
Cc: "gtkmm-list gnome org" <gtkmm-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: Multiple threads and drawing
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:54:19 +0200

This is very hard to answer, but as a general rule and probably approximation to the truth you should avoid any calls into Gtk+ not using the GUI/main thread.

2008/6/18 Germán Diago <germandiago gmail com>:

>Gtk::Label::set_text() definitely causes a redraw of the label in question. Gtk::Table::attach() will probably cause an immediate redraw of the Table in >question as well as the new child. You should check your code for GUI calls from a non-main thread.

Is it specified anywhere which operations imply redrawing? Because
there's a lot overhead in coding all GUI things in the GUI thread.

References:
- Multiple threads and drawing
  - From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Germ=E1n_Diago?=
- Re: Multiple threads and drawing
  - From: Milosz Derezynski

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