On Sat, 29 May 2010 06:35:24 -0000 "John Emmas" <john...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > When you call one of the g_idle_add() functions, you're saying to gtk, > "don't execute this function now - but delay it until the GUI thread > has some idle time available and execute it there." By doing that, > you ensure that GUI elements get updated in the right way and in the > right place.
That's not quite right. It adds a callback to the event queue, and with g_idle_add_ful() you can specify any priority you want (you can, if you wish, put it at the top of the event queue). The "idle" is really a misnomer and just relates to the default priority in the queue for the callback. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
