Re: Glib::SignalIO Help

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:42:27 -0600
Michael Sierks <msierks sierkstech net> wrote:
[snip]
> well there is the main gui thread, which will handle updating the
> gui. And there is the connection thread, which will handle
> sending/receiving as well as maintaining any connection related data.
> The plan is to have the connection thread emit signals to tell the
> gui thread to update itself. I am hoping this is a good approach,
> though I am still a little unsure. The plan was at a later time allow
> multiple connections to be made, each on their own thread.

That should be fine with glibmm, if you use Glib::Dispatcher to
communicate with the main thread and use some kind of asynchronous
queue to pass the data. That didn't seem to be what your code snippet
was doing though. Does your worker thread have its own main loop?

Chris

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