On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 08:33:16PM +0100, Dieter Verfaillie wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:37:03 +0100, Marcin Szewczyk wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 03:08:10PM +0100, Dieter Verfaillie wrote: > >>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. > > You mean "Thread(target = gtk.main, name = "GTK thread")"? > If so, "target" is the callable object to be invoked by the run() > method. > Whatever is executed by the run() method runs in in the new thread > you created, not the main thread.
Have I stated otherwise? For me words "single" and "main" mean something completely different. If I read "single" thread, for me it means "execute gtk.main() only in one (arbitrarily chosen) thread" -- which by the way seems to be the case here. If I read "main" thread, for me it means "execute gtk.main() only in the main thread". As there is only one main thread it also means I can run gtk.main() in only one thread. Documentation states it is "single". It doesn't say "main". -- 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/
