Hello! I'm new to this list and also a novice in GTK programming. My company is considering to port some of our Windows service (aka daemon) applications to GNU/Linux and thus I'm evaluating what libraries to use for that. Currently I'm programming with Delphi5 on Windows and I plan to use gcc C/C++ on GNU/Linux.
Most of our applications are some kind of TCP/IP servers which have each client implemented as one thread. The communication between the threads is performed by sending standard windows messages (PostMessage() or SendMessage() if somebody here is familiar with the Win32 API). I had a look at GTK/GLib and the main/event loop seems to be similar to that. But what is not clear to me is how to place an event in the event loop of another thread. If I raise an signal the connected slots will be executed immediately, or? Thus this mechanism seems not to be useful for inter-thread-communication. Maybe I have to use a pipe and assign read/write handlers in each thread? It seems like there is some functionality like this in wxWidgets: http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/stable/wx_wxevthandler.html#wxevthandleraddpendingevent Is such thing also available in native GTK/GLib? /Tobias PS: Does anybody know about a good tutorial/example on the net demonstrating how to port Win32 (service) applications to GNU/Linux? When searching with Google I find a lot useless pages about Wine or .NET/Mono . -- NOA Audio Solutions Vertriebsges.m.b.H. Tel: +43-1-5452700 Johannagasse 42/4 Fax: +43-1-545270014 A - 1050 Wien Www: http://www.noa-audio.com _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
