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Felix Kater wrote:
> Could anyone please explain this behaviour:
> 
> Imagine a simple window with 1 box and 2 buttons in it. If you press
> the first button, the second is destroyed, and a newly created button
> packed into the box. This *works* on linux and win32 (gtk+-2.10.13).
> 
> Now, let button 1 start a thread which does the same. On linux,
> gds_threds_enter is passed, on win32 it blocks forever. (Strange enough,
> win32 does not block in case the second button is a label.)
> 
> My workaround: The thread itself calls g_idle_add() to do the job.
> 
> So, my conclusion: On the contrast to linux, unter win32 there is no way
> to use gdk_threads_enter() to synchronize between different threads.
> 
> Felix

Felix,

- From my limited GTK experience I have found that g_idle_add always seems
to work better than using gtk_threads_enter/leave. So I would recommend
that you try and use g_idle_add always.

Kevin


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