On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 23:38, David Smith wrote:
> <quote who="Michael Torrie">
> > 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.
> 
> But your version of GTK must have been compiled with thread support. The
> default RH8 is not. Hence the warning. :)

Interesting.  There's no g_thread_init in glib in rh 8.  So you can't do
threading at all with redhat's gtk unless you recompile.  I'll recompile
and see what happens.

Michael

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