On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:06:38 -0400 "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Chris Vine > <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:44:43 -0400 > > "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Chris Vine > > > <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: [snip] > > > > In this example, the worker thread is sending stuff back to the > > > > main program thread's main loop. It presumes that the main > > > > program thread has passed the work to the worker beforehand in > > > > an appropriate way. That could be by starting a new thread for > > > > it, by pushing it onto a thread pool, or by giving the worker > > > > thread its own main loop and pushing work to it with an idle > > > > source (you can't use g_idle_add() or g_idle_add_full() for > > > > that because those functions do not enable you to choose your > > > > GMainContext, but it is trivial to write you own function to do > > > > this in order to hand work to any thread's main loop). [snip] > > > Has anybody looked into GTask? It's a simple way to make a worker > > > thread for some heavy processing, give it some data, and be > > > notified on its completion or failure. > > > > > > It's the recommended way to run a synchronous task in another > > > thread in the GNOME world. > > > > That is well mentioned. It has a nice implementation if you are > > stuck with C, provided you have glib-2.36 available. So far, I > > think the only stable distribution with that version is ubuntu > > raring. Possibly arch may just have acquired it. > > > Note that GTask replaced GSimpleAsyncResult, which has a considerably > lousier API, but is still workable for doing the same thing. If you > need more availability, you should use that. And with a hideous API as you say. If using C and in the absence of GTask (or in the event of GTask being suitable for the job in hand) I would use one of the other three methods mentioned. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
