> If I may ask, what is the main technical problem (deeper explanation) with > using GTK+ from multiple threads?
On Windows, the problem is that Windows GDI, being a local windowing system with a quite tight coupling to the client code executing on the same machine, is very much thread-aware. (With tight coupling I mean that you do actual system calls into the in-kernel windowing system, and it does actual callbacks into your code.) Windows and other objects that are created by one thread keep that thread association and their messages (events) are delivered to the same thread. Stuff like that. Totally different from X, which is basically a network protocol, and the protocol carries no information of what threads there might be in a client, or even which client connections perhaps are from the same process. (At least in traditional X; modern Linux local-only X usage with various extension and security enhancements etc might change the picture a bit.) --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
