Gerald Combs wrote: > That's correct. Checking for updates would be pretty easy if we could > connect to the server, issue a request, and feed the response to > read_prefs_file(). It'd be even easier if we could do so from a thread > instead of a separate process. > And probably less memory consuming :-) > > In regard to Ulf's comment about threads not working well with GTK+ 2.4, > it looks like that's still the case and won't change any time soon. The > threads section of the GDK reference on developer.gnome.org says: > > "Unfortunately the above holds with the X11 backend only. With the Win32 > backend, GDK calls should not be attempted from multiple threads at all." > > There's also a bug entry at > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60620 that's been marked > WONTFIX with the recommendation of using idle/timer callbacks instead of > threads for display code. > Are you already working on this?
I had a look at the cygwin setup program, as they (depending on a user setting) use the internet access from Internet Explorer to load files from the internet. That has the great advantage that this is working well with a proxy, if the proxy settings of IE is set correct. I've also started to write a proposal how a file content could look like to update things - it needs some more polishing before I'll send it to this list (to reduce a lot of discussion by providing a clean proposal the first time). My thought was also to use the syntax of the preferences file :-) Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
