On 8/4/10 6:44 PM, Chris Vine wrote: > Our posts have crossed but you wouldn't use a quit flag at all. If > the main thread calls g_main_loop_quit() on a worker thread's main > loop, whether via an idle handler (my first suggestion) or directly > (my second), the main loop will come to an end and the thread will > run to its return point and terminate. Thanks -- that's exactly what I was looking for. It seems to work, and is a lot more straightforward than I thought it'd be. I guess I should have tried the simplest thing first. :) _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list