Crossing thread boundary with idle function

2006-12-13 Thread Philip Boulain
Hullo, Short version: When GTK+ is in its main run loop, blocking on an event, is there a way to awaken/unblock it from some external thread such that it will pay attention to newly-added idle functions? Long version with context: I have a lovely multithreaded application in C++/GTKmm that

Re: Crossing thread boundary with idle function

2006-12-13 Thread Philip Boulain
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 21:20 +, Chris Vine wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 18:05, Philip Boulain wrote: When GTK+ is in its main run loop, blocking on an event, is there a way to awaken/unblock it from some external thread such that it will pay attention to newly-added idle