Hello Harry Thanks for the response.
What I want to do is minimise the dependencies that my code has on various libraries other than the C++ standard library. Since the C++ standard library does not include a GUI, I use GTKMM, which I'm very happy with. I have separated out my GUI presentation code from the rest of the code, and only the GUI presentation code has to include <gtkmm.h>. But to get the multithreading for the GUI working, I have now had to introduce a dependency on Glib <glibmm.h> in other parts of my code. I have used wrapper classes to limit the scope of the dependency to a small section of code, but I would have preferred not to do this at all. My question is: Could I have avoided use of Glib::Thread altogether, and just used std::thread? I think probably not, but thought I would ask. Chris Gordon-Smith www.simsoup.info On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 17:44 +0100, Harry van Haaren wrote: > Hi Chris, > > From experience: Of course it is, if you 1. mutex critical sections > or 2. lock-free ringbuffer all events between the threads, there's > no reason you can't use 2 (or more) different "types" of threads in > one app. > > From a practical point of view, why would you? Glib::Thread should > suffice for simulator / GUI separation... > > Perhaps I'm not following your use-case, or maybe you want to play > with the latest-and-greatest, I don't know. > I know there's some convenience things around std::thread that you > might want for ease of use.. but I've always > coded those myself.. > > -Harry > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Chris Gordon-Smith > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All > > I have recently introduced multi-threading into my artificial > chemistry > simulator, so that the GUI can be active while the simulation > is > running. > > To do this, I've used Glib::Thread. Now that C++11 provides > threading > with std::thread, I would prefer to use that. Is it possible > to use > std::thread so that I have one thread for my GTKMM GUI, and > one (or > more) for my simulation processing? > > Chris Gordon-Smith > www.simsoup.info > > _______________________________________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list > _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
