Yves Willems wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I have a multi threaded GTK app and want to show an error dialogue for an
> error that occurred on a thread different then the main thread.
>
> When showing the dialogue on this thread, the 'waiting for OK' blocks the
> main thread and therefore freezes my GUI.
>
>
> Can anyone give me a hint how to tackle such a problem?
/* Thread that recieved the error */
text = g_strdup_printf ("The error that occurred");
g_idle_add (report_error_dialog, text);
/* Main Thread */
gboolean
report_error_dialog (gchar *text)
{
/* Show "text" in dialog here */
g_free (text);
return FALSE;
}
Cheers,
-Tristan
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