Thanks James for giving me my first experience with Thread programming!
I tried the code you sent me, but unfortunately, I still can't get the
progress_update
function to run, looks like it never gets called. Any idea why this
might be happening?
growPart still runs.
Thanks,
Vicki
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GTK program before. The ret=wait(null) causes execution to stop at that
point and wait for growPart() to finish. A way to get around the
logistics of fork() is to use threads directly. Consider the following;
/* globals */
gboolean b_pulse_control = FALSE
GThread *grow_thread_id = NULL;
gint global_ret = 0;
b_pulse_control = TRUE;
timer = g_timeout_add(50, (GSourceFunc) progress_update,
(gpointer)progressbar);
grow_thread_id = g_thread_create ( growPart_thread, &b_pulse_control,
TRUE, NULL);
static gboolean progress_update (gpointer progressbar)
{
if (b_pulse_control)
{
gtk_progress_bar_pulse(GTK_PROGRESS_BAR(progressbar));
return true;
} else {
global_ret = GPOINTER_TO_INT( g_thread_join (grow_thread) );
return FALSE;
}
}
static gpointer growPart_thread(gpointer b_pulse)
{
/* do work */
growPart();
*b_pulse = FALSE;
g_thread_exit( GINT_TO_POINTER( 1 ) );
}
I would do the passing of control values via a structure to avoid the
use of globals,
but this should work for you.
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