Re: central 'library' of self-contained real world examples of code for gtkwidgets

2010-06-30 Thread Olivier Sessink
2010/6/27 Mick : > In veiw of the nightmare I've had finding non-trivial example code for > assembling/implimenting gtk widgets recently I have decided to attempt > to assemble a library of functions that impliment a task at a more > advanced level than your typical 'Hello world' that abound. > > S

Re: multithreading gtk app

2010-06-30 Thread Olivier Sessink
it would be good if the gtk tutorial would spent some pages on threads. In these days where multicore cpu's are becoming the standard a lot of programs can benefit from threads. I'm willing to help with that, I contacted the webmasters from gtk.org about it some time ago but I never received a rep

Re: multithreading gtk app

2010-06-30 Thread jcupitt
On 30 June 2010 01:57, Mick wrote: > can anyone point me to an explanation (with examples) to help me > understand running some dialogs in separate threads. (eg. help, > preferences, etc) It's almost always best to only have a single GUI thread in a gtk application, in my experience. Use non-mod

Re: multithreading gtk app

2010-06-30 Thread Vivien Malerba
On 30 June 2010 02:57, Mick wrote: > can anyone point me to an explanation (with examples) to help me > understand running some dialogs in separate threads. (eg. help, > preferences, etc) The general recommendation is to avoid using any GTK+ object from different threads (because it does not work

Custom content in GtkMenus?

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Allen
I'm trying to put custom content in GtkMenus... things like menu items, date picker controls, lists and so on. These are all custom widgets that I can't rewrite (easily). It seems that GtkMenus are very limited in what they can display, just GtkMenuItems right? If I wrap my controls in GtkMenuIt