Hi Vish, 2009/12/2 Vishwanath Venkatesan <venkates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I am trying to understand the internals of threading in GTK+-2.0. From my > understanding there are threads generated with GTK+ functions (ex. Opening a > file-dialog) even without explicit threading. That's not correct. Gtk+ is a single-threaded system with an event loop. gtk_main() sits in a loop getting events from various sources and dispatching them to various scraps of code according to the event type. Each scrap of code will do a tiny bit of processing and then return back to the main loop again. Everything runs in the same thread. You can have nested main loops: if you pop up a window, it can be a programming convenience to have another main loop to handle the interaction for that dialog, but it's not required. Again, the inner main loop runs in the same thread. If you want to have several threads in your application, it's usually best to only have one of them doing all the gtk calls. You can use some parts of glib to get worker threads to send safe messages to the main thread. John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
