Thank you Chris, I'll read more about this Glib::Dispatcher, in the past I
already took a look but then discouraged and used gdk lock that I already
was able to use.

Giuseppe.


On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Chris Vine <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 00:16:24 +0200
> Giuseppe Penone <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm not very experienced in c++ and gtkmm, so far (after reading
> > http://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Threads.html)
> > I did protect the following graphics calls:
> >
> > 1) from non main threads
> > 2) the glib timeout calls
> >
> > are you saying I have to protect also every single gtk callback? This
> > would be very bad of gtkmm :(
>
> No.  I am saying three things:
>
> 1.  Don't use the gdk global lock at all with gtkmm; use
> Glib::Dispatcher instead.
>
> 2.  However, if you insist on using the gdk global lock, protect all
> calls to libsigc++ objects which are accessed in more than one thread
> (and avoid sigc::trackable).  Also of course, comply with all the other
> things in the documentation to which you have referred.
>
> 3.  Best of all, combine 1 above with reading the attachment to the bug
> report I mentioned in my earlier post.  That will tell you how to
> program threads safely in gtkmm.  (Here is an even more direct html
> reference to it:
> http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=201915 ).
>
> Chris
>
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