Ahh I see now. I'm still a student so this is all still a learning process for me. Thanks for the help!
Thanks again, Matt Nickolai Dobrynin wrote: > Matt, > > The rule of thumb here is to either (a) make all GUI calls from the > same thread or (b) explicitly synchronize each and every such > call with a lock. In your case, on_search_button_clicked violates > that principle. > > If my understanding of the task at hand is correct, you are trying to > initiate a thread with a button click. That thread, in turn, would > initiate a database access. Once this completes, you want the string > "Done" displayed in the GUI. Is that correct? If so, I suggest you > take a look at Glib::Dispatcher > > http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGlib_1_1Dispatcher.html > > and use it to inform the GUI thread that the DB access is completed. > > One more thing. Are you sure on_search_button_clicked() and > search_db() are the right place for the show_all call? Don't you want > it to be a part of your initialization logic, i.e. immediately after > you are done setting up your widgets in the beginning? > > > Regards, > > Nickolai _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
