[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just thought of something else. I'm using asynchronous IO, which means > that data coming into my serial port (caught via a kernel signal) can > interrupt the gui and call some other code, which in turn tells the GUI to > update various parts of it. Is it possible that I'm interrupting the GUI > from doing something important, and when I try to make changes I'm > breaking things? If so, how would I avoid this?
Do you mean the POSIX 1003.1 asynchronous IO calls? They rely on signal handler callbacks. And here it is: you can't call gtk-Functions from unix signal handlers! For future reference see: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/1999-September/msg00077.html http://rapidmax.homelinux.net/src/gunixsignal/ http://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~Tews/Gtk/a2955.html Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
