Re: g_threads_enter() equivalent

[Mark Roberts <gtkmm manumark de>]

Dear Chris,

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Chris Vine wrote:

> Mark Roberts <gtkmm manumark de> wrote:

> > [...] utility classes [...]

> This is wrong.  gdk_threads_enter() and gdk_threads_leave() lock and
> unlock the GDK global lock.  You cannot replace that with a mutex of
> your own, because you cannot control what happens in main loop events
> with such a mutex.  You have to use the lock which GDK uses,
> namely its global lock.

Thanks for the clarification. I did not mean to say that 
gdk_threads_enter() and gdk_threads_leave() could be replaced by any of 
the utility classes mentioned in my post, but it may have seemed that that 
was what I meant.

I only meant that you can generally sink a pair of functions in a utility 
class so as not to forget calling one of them.

Mark