On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 21:49, David Smith wrote: > A warning on threading: GTK is not thread safe. Be careful, and know the > implications of your design before you begin to code. It will save you > many headaches.
GTK+ *is* thread-aware, however. Just follow the FAQ and you'll be fine. As long as you use critical sections around gtk+ calls, you can even make calls to the GUI from any thread (unlike windows). There's a nice FAQ on this. > > --Dave > > <quote who="Soren Harward"> > > Michael L Torrie wrote: > >> Threading is the best way. Just pay attenting to the threading > >> section of the gtk FAQ. > > > > Point noted. Looks like it's time to re-write this program in C instead > > of perl. The latter was fine when it was a simple yet un-intuitive > > command-line program. Then I hacked in the GUI using GTK-perl, and it > > was still okay, but not great. Now it's starting to get out of > > control... > > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
