Hi David, probably you should use macros: gdk_threads_enter () gdk_threads_leave ().
Best regards, Igor 2012/7/3, David Buchan <pdbuc...@yahoo.com>: > My understanding is that child threads must never alter the UI in any way. > > If I have a program which spawns a child thread to download some data and I > want to be able to have a dialog pop up should an error occur, is it correct > to say that I need an idle function to be running concurrently to monitor > some global variable which would contain the status (set by the download > thread), and then the idle function would create the dialog pop-up? > > Put another way, if only the GTK+ main iteration is allowed to alter the > GUI, then how does someone get information out of a child thread and to the > UI? > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
