> Interesting. So g_idle_add can be safely called > from a different thread? Does it have to be a gthread, > or will a pthread work as well? I have been using pthreads with g_idle_add for a few years. It seems to work fine. Just make sure you call g_thread_init(NULL) before gtk_main(). > I've added gdk_threads_enter/leave around all my calls, > and so far as I can tell, everything appears to be fine now. I can say that on Solaris 9 with GTK 2.1.0 there are definitely subtle, yet serious bugs in the "thread aware" functionality that enter/leave offers. On a large project, it took us a few months to realize that it wasn't working. One problem in particular was that GtkTreeView updates done from an alternate thread sometimes got mangled or core dumped. We gave up on the enter/leave calls and started using g_idle_add. Random problems went away, and our design was greatly improved. However, the enter/leave bugs may have been fixed since 2.1.0. -Anthony Vallone _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
