On 1/24/07, Melvin Newman <zexelon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The problem that I am running into is that I cant get the gui to update in a > timely manner (a problem that allot of us GTK noobs seem to have, but one > which no one answers clearly). I've written a large (>100,000) line threaded GTK application. After experimenting with various options, IMO the best solution is: - use GThread, not pthread, and there's one less porting worry if you ever have to consider win32 - your main thread should do the GUI: all gtk_*() calls are from this thread, and it spends most of its life sitting in gtk_main() - long computations are done in a thread - when a thread has some data ready to update the display, it calls g_timeout_add(), passing in a pointer to the data - the timeout callback happens in the main thread ... it processes the data (I assume this is quick), updates the display, and frees the data area John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
