Re: [Gtk1-win-developers] Progress - decloaked GDK pointers

[Donald M. <do...@dr...>]

Robin,

>>Do you have a patch for these changes/bug-fixes?
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>It's way too unstable to be useful to anyone I think.
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Ok fair enough.

I have been trying to get Cinepaint to work with your gtkwin1.4 but am 
coming across a deadlock problem when running any of the load 
plug-ings.  I see  a Bug note in layers_dialog.c which refers to the 
gifload - but I see the same problem with tiff and jpeg (maybe others, 
have not got round to trying them yet)

WHen the plugin calls gimp_image_new( .... ) which ends up causing a 
menu change for one of the the windows. Which calls the Win32 API 
function MoveWindow( ) from the WireMsgHandler thread . The window that 
this is being called for was created in the WinMain thread - which is 
sitting waiting for the plugin to return. Hence we end up in Deadlock.
I found the following post from gtk-devel but there seems to be little 
more on this.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-November/msg00235.html

As the post says there is a problem with multi-threaded apps. Does the 
suggestion of having a thread in GTK that is always used to 
create/change Windows  seem like a good option to solve this problem.

Donald.