Is there a way to have a (non-main iteration) thread issue a signal when it
ends?
I start up a timeout and an idle function when I spawn a new thread.
I want the main iteration to stop the timeout and idle function as soon as the
new thread is finished and disappears.
It seems to me that if
Hello ...Excuse me for my question I am
creating a combo-box with scrollbar with GTK 3.0 and VALA (gtk) .
.as the COMBO-BOX in LibreOffice that have in the list of FONTS
..
I have been able to create something like a MENU
Perhaps the easiest thing is just to have the new thread set a flag (which the
main iteration has access to) and then have the timeout and idle functions
check the flag and return FALSE is it is set or return TRUE if not set.
I still think signals would be more elegant, but maybe this is the
On 5 July 2012 14:26, David Buchan pdbuc...@yahoo.com wrote:
Is there a way to have a (non-main iteration) thread issue a signal when it
ends?
I start up a timeout and an idle function when I spawn a new thread.
I want the main iteration to stop the timeout and idle function as soon as
the
Aaaah.. I see.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant.
That's great! Thanks.
From: jcup...@gmail.com jcup...@gmail.com
To: David Buchan pdbuc...@yahoo.com
Cc: gtk-app-devel-list list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:32 AM
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When the user presses a button, an idle function is begun to watch a flag which
will tell it a message has been left in a string for it by a worker thread. The
worker thread is then started. It will produce results to be displayed in a
textview by the idle function. When the worker thread has
