On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 15:44 -0600, Pat Mahoney wrote:
> (not subscribed; please CC replies)
>
> I'm trying to find a way to provide my mainloop with asynchronous data
> from a thread. I have read this:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2004-July/msg00181.html
>
> which describes how to use a GAsyncQueue and GSource to watch the queue
> for available data (and to have the thread wake up the mainloop when data
> is available). A callback is run in the context of gtk_main when
> data is available. It works perfectly except for one show-stopper
> problem:
Note that using a custom GSource here is perhaps overcomplicated. The
simplest method is:
g_idle_add (function_to_call_in_main_thread, data_to_pass_to_function);
(Or use g_idle_add_full() if you want to prioritize the callback higher
than the default idle priority.)
Regards,
Owen
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