I'll break protocol and reply to my own message _again_... On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:05 -0500, Michael R. Head wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:46 -0500, Michael McCann wrote: > > > > Ahh, ok. How else can I accomplish my goal, then? I need to give GTK the > > lock, as I'm calling GDK from another function not in the main GTK loop. > > I tried leaving out gdk_threads_enter()/leave() in the CPU-intensive > > function, but X gives me errors. > > Well, I guess what you need to do is to separate out the CPU intensive > bits of the function from the widget manipulation bits... > > my_function() { > compute_real_hard(); > > gdk_threads_enter(); > update_ui(); > gdk_threads_leave(); > > } > > Or something like that.
Also, you can skip using gdk_threads_enter() and gdk_threads_leave() if you instead use g_idle_add(update_ui) and make update_ui a suitable callback: http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html#g-idle-add mike > mike > -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suppressingfire.org _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list