On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:08:10PM +0100, Dieter Verfaillie wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:38:37 +0100, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >def startgtk(func, gtkthread = False): > > if gtkthread: > > thrd = Thread(target = gtk.main, name = "GTK thread") > > thrd.deamon = True > > thrd.start() > > func() > > else: > > thrd = Thread(target = func, name = "Canvas thread") > > thrd.deamon = True > > thrd.start() > > gtk.main() > > > >Calling this with gtkthread = False, doesn't pose a problem > >but calling it with gtkthread = True makes it block on > >one computer. > > Looking at GLib docs [2] we learn that: "... A GMainContext can only > be running in a single thread, ...". Looks to me that what you are > trying to do is not possible?
If I understand the code above correctly, gtk.main() is still used in a single thread, just not the main one. So I can't agree the quoted documentation explicitly forbids that. Still, one can observe problems running gtk.main() outside the main thread. I've asked a similar question some time ago. I think that constraint should be mentioned in the pygtk documentation. I've done some tests. If anyone is interested, they're in a repo: https://bitbucket.org/wodny/pygtk-threads -- Marcin Szewczyk http://wodny.org mailto:marcin.szewc...@wodny.borg <- remove b / usuĊ b xmpp:wo...@ubuntu.pl xmpp:wo...@jabster.pl _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
