[Gtk1-win-developers] Re: GTK deadlock in Win32

[Robin R. <ro...@Mo...>]

Donald,

> As the post says there is a problem with multi-threaded apps.

Good work tracking that down!

> 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.

Not really. GTK seems to have endless problems. Diverting more effort from
CinePaint into GTK is not the answer.

I have another idea I'm researching.

Robin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald MacVicar" <do...@dr...>
To: <gtk...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Gtk1-win-developers] Progress - decloaked GDK pointers


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