You can use threads, but anytime you modify a widget our call a gtk display routine, you need to wrap it in g_thread_enter() and g_thread_leave(). See the documentation here: http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN482 Bryan On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 09:27 -0500, Melvin Newman wrote: > First off I am a noob with GTK+. > > Basically I am writing a program that is to interface with a server > program over a network. As such this client program has effectively 2 > parts, 1) the backend code that connects to the server and handles all > the data communications, 2) the front end GUI that presents the code > to the user. > > 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 have tried the > following at key places in my code: > > while(gtk_events_pending()) > gtk_main_iteration(); > > And while this does update the gui, the user still has no control over > it. For example if the user select file->exit, the menu drops down but > the exit button has no effect. Can GTK+ run multiple signal handlers > concurrently? > > In my first write of this program I used pthreads however I did it in > a very very unsafe manner and the client program would frequently > crash because both gtk_main() and my thread where doing gui > operations. > > My main question therefore is, how do I write a responsive gui that > can communicate in real time over the backend networking code? Is > pthread the way to go? If so, how do I guarantee that the pthread code > will work on a single processor/core machine? My last pthread code ran > ok on my dual proc desktop, but died on my single proc laptop. > > Thank you very much for any help you can provide this noob. > > Sincerely > Melvin > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
