Hi again

Don't mess synchronized with a mutex. The closest thing to
synchronized would be ags_task_thread_append_task()
and run things exclusively

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsequencer.git/tree/ags/thread/ags_task_thread.h?h=0.7.x

bests,
Joël



On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Joël Krähemann <jkraehem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Since I know Javax/Swing I can tell you there is no synchronize
> keyword doing your magic.
>
> Please take a look at pthread_mutex_lock(), pthread_cond_wait(),
> pthread_cond_signal(), pthread_cond_broadcast()
> or pthread_barrier_wait().
>
> Bests,
> Joël
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Joël Krähemann <jkraehem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> You can't do that without implementing your own widget because of
>> thread-safety issues. To do your own
>> GtkFlowBox implement GtkWidget:size-allocate and
>> GtkWidget:size-request the rest is up to you.
>>
>> Don't forget doing mutices or use g_timeout_add() but this is single
>> threaded and is invoked by
>> g_main_context_iteration().
>>
>> For a simple example consider this:
>>
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsequencer.git/tree/ags/X/editor/ags_notebook.c?h=0.7.x#n167
>>
>> It is a scrolled window containing buttons doing a scrollable area.
>>
>> You have to use gdk_threads_enter() and gdk_threads_leave(). Might be
>> you have even to acquire
>> the GMainContext.
>>
>> Bests,
>> Joël
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Gergely Polonkai <gerg...@polonkai.eu> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have no knowledge of Java/Swing, but based on your requirements I guess
>>> you need FlowBox[1].
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Gergely
>>>
>>> [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkFlowBox.html
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 16:35 Daniel. <danielhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I have a library implementing some protocol. That library is
>>>> multithread and is responsible to delivery messages to remote nodes
>>>> and retrieve it's responses. I need to visualise the whole mess
>>>> running.
>>>>
>>>> To do this I wrote a simple application in Java/Swing where for each
>>>> remote node one thread is created. The thread will send a message and
>>>> wait for response in a closed loop. Each thread is represented at GUI
>>>> by a label on the screen. When it's idle the background of that label
>>>> becomes green, when is waiting for response it is yellow and if
>>>> timeouts it becomes red. All labels have the same information so that
>>>> they have exactly the same size.
>>>>
>>>> Beside the request/repsonse there is events that can arrive from the
>>>> nodes too. That events need to be replied as the messages. When an
>>>> event arrives it's showed up on screen as a new label. When it's reply
>>>> is acknowledge it's removed from the screen.
>>>>
>>>> In pratice there is a big container where the labels came and go and
>>>> change its background colors based on messages, replies and events
>>>> comming and going.
>>>>
>>>> I've been using FlowLayout as the "big container". The labels are
>>>> added and arrange horizontally by FlowLayout. When no room is avaible
>>>> at the current row, a new row is added. When the rows exceed the
>>>> window size a scrowbar appears.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for something silimar with GTK2 (I'll run in a embeeded
>>>> system that doesn't have GTK3).
>>>>
>>>> My questions are:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Is there some container with equivalent behavior to the Swing's
>>>> FlowLayout? If no I think I'll need to build one from hbox+vbox, what
>>>> would be the best aproach to it.
>>>> 2) How is the best way to change the background of a label?
>>>> 3) What is the better aproach when adding instantiating, adding,
>>>> showing, hiding removing and freeing widgets at runtime? What can get
>>>> wrong?
>>>>
>>>> References:
>>>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/visual.html#flow
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> --
>>>> "Do or do not. There is no try"
>>>>   Yoda Master
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