Hi,

I am developing a multi-threaded (pthreads) GUI application using GTK 2.0 library on Red Hat Linux 9.0.

Application has 3-4 GUI threads i.e. one window in each of the 3-4 GUI threads.

I am putting gtk_main() in my main thread for GUI messages handling for all threads. Is there any way I can process GUI messages in each of the GUI thread?

Can any one help me on this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Hi All,

I am also facing the same issue. I am developing a system tray application ,Which will listen to a port for any incoming connection.

Also there is a menu attached with this system tray application, through which user can perform operations.

I have forked a process which will listen to the socket for connection and then perform operations and in the parent thread I am handling the GUI of system tray by calling gtk_main().

What is happening is at the accept() function the code is getting blocked and now even the parent process is not able to function because of this the menu of system tray hangs.

Plz help.


Regards
Arun Tayal

Hi,

Use gdk_threads APIs as follow:

main()
{
GtkWidget *window;

/* init threads */
g_thread_init(NULL);
gdk_threads_init();

/* init gtk */
gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

window = create_window();
gtk_widget_show(window);

gdk_threads_enter();
gtk_main();
gdk_threads_leave();
}


and in the other threads, wherever we are calling gtk+ apis, it should be done as follow:

gdk_threads_enter();
//code
gdk_threads_leave();