On Tuesday 06 March 2007 17:45, Kevin Lambert wrote: > I am currently working on a multithreaded application which has a primary > GUI that is always running and I need to be able to get that GUI to show a > popup to put images in. The problem I am having is how do I tell the GUI > to show the popup from outside of its own code? > > As a test I connected the "keys-changed" signal for the GUI's window so > that if that signal gets emitted it launches my dialog. I then added an > external function which emits that signal which, when called, crashes the > application with: > > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x995)! > Xlib: sequence lost (0x108c7 > 0xfd) in reply type 0x8! > Xlib: sequence lost (0x10000 > 0xfd) in reply type 0x0! > > I do know that only the primary GUI thread is allowed to handle X calls > which is why I had the signal handler launching my dialog. I have tried > googling for information but Im not finding much.
The callback is executed in the thread which emits the signal. For your use (to cross thread boundaries), see g_idle_add(). Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
