Haven't tested your program but I have to say that you should never update any UI stuff from the main thread unless you take preconditions for it. Gtk is thread aware but not thread save by default! You would have to use Gdk.threads_enter() and Gdk.threads_leave() around Gtk.main() and every UI access from a thread different from the main thread. (For more information read documentation of Gdk.threads_enter() and friends)
I strongly recommend handling the UI exclusively in the main thread !! This will save you a lot of trouble. One thing you can do is calculating time intensive stuff in extra threads and then return the result to the main thread using an idle function like this: void* gen_list(){ // thread function string[] data = {}; data += "bla"; //more ... Idle.add( () => { // put ui stuff here, will be handled in the main thread foreach(string x in data) { TreeIter iter; liststore.append (out iter); liststore.set(iter,0,x); } }); } Regards Am Freitag, den 23.12.2011, 16:19 +0200 schrieb Dr. Amr Osman: > hello i made this small app to view icons from the system in python and > i am porting it to vala > but i can't get it to work any ideas what i am missing ? > > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > vala-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list