-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Ne?as (Yeti) wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:38:25PM +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote: >> I have a threaded gtk application. The threads create some gui (gtk >> widgets/windows). and most of the time (maybe 80%) everything works as >> expected. >> Occassionally I will get the message on stdout >> >> Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence #####)! >> >> the ### is an x event sequence number >> >> I am suspecting that this is because of the x calls from 2 different threads. >> >> Is this a known problem? >> >> Any way around this ? (I thought gtk was supposed to be thread ok :) > > The answer depends on your defintions of `OK', `known' and > `problem': > - Gtk+ is thread-aware > - Gtk+ is not thread-safe > > If you operate on the GUI from multiple threads: > - you are responsible for the locking on Unix/X > - it will just not work on MS Windows
I'm only interested in X. Any tips/hints/pointers on "locking X" ? > See > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Threads.html Thanks, I'll take a look. > People typically operate on the GUI only from the main > thread (i.e. running gtk_main()) and pass work requests to > it via g_idle_add() or some other queue mechanism. This thought occured to me. It's not a lot of gui I have to manage, but managing it from a thread different from the one using it is a bit of a hassle. > This topic is discussed here every other week, see the list > archives. i CHECKED the archives. honest. I did a search on $SUBJECT, and came up blank. Maybe I need to broaden my search. Anyway, I'll look at the gdk-Threads doc. Thanks for that! > Yeti > > -- > http://gwyddion.net/ > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list - -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information. (from /var/log/Xorg.setup.log) | Greg Hosler [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGtIbI404fl/0CV/QRAh43AKCHVFsMCv9D1nUABDxf3gimiLnzHwCfbQoY AH02w+3a7Gu/NKNAK5vmocc= =B/3Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
