On 12/30/2011 06:08 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 12/30/2011 05:52 AM, David Nečas wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 01:28:32PM +0100, Moritz Renftle wrote: >>> i want to make one of those widgets visible from >>> another thread >> >> Use glib.idle_add() in that other thread to subsequently execute the >> actual Gtk+ code in the thread running the Gtk+ main loop. > > http://unpythonic.blogspot.com/2007/08/using-threads-in-pygtk.html > > It used to be that threading issues came up every week on the list. As > David says, the recommended way is using idle_add. However if you use > gdk locks appropriately, on Linux you can call Gtk calls directly from > threaded code. > > http://www.pardon-sleeuwaegen.be/antoon/python/page0.html > > But since this won't work so well on Windows, the idle_add() technique > is recommended as it is most safe and most portable.
You may check out http://www.iki.fi/tml/fosdem-2006.pdf about gtk-win32 and threads. -- Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
