OoO Peu avant le d�but de  l'apr�s-midi du mercredi 08 juin 2005, vers
13:53, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:

> | John K. Luebs reminds you: *don't forget gtk.threads_enter() and
> | gtk.threads_leave()* around mainloop when accessing gtk code if you want
> | your application to actually work threaded:
> | 
> |  gtk.gdk.threads_enter()
> |  gtk.main()
> |  gtk.gdk.threads_leave()

> I think this is wrong although it doesn't seem to hurt.

>> From the reference pages I understand that gtk.gdk.threads_init
> initializes a lock and that gtk.gdk.threads_enter() acquires
> this lock while gtk.gdk.threads_leave() releases it. In any case
> it is all about marking critical sections.

> Now marking the gtk.main()  as such a critical section would
> mean that all other threads wanting to enter a critical section
> with gtk.gdk calls would be stopped from doing so until gtk.main
> had quit. That seems less than usefull.

As  a  side  note,  I  have  got my  application  working  using  this
trick. This seems  odd to me too  but without this, I was  not able to
run the  application on  win32, even when  all the gui  operations are
made on the main thread (as suggested). On Linux, no problem.
-- 
BOFH excuse #9:
doppler effect
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