[java-gnome-hackers] Java-Gnome thread model?

[Tom B. <Tom...@Su...>]

Hi all,

What's the thread model for Java-GNOME development?  Swing requires that
all GUI updating happen on the event dispatch thread, while the AWT
pretends it's fully multithreaded.  I haven't found any documentation
suggesting threading rules for Java-GNOME, but there also isn't much
synchronization effort either.

What's prompting this question is that I'm writing a GUI front-end for
Sun's VPN client using Java-GNOME, which will have a status window (a
GtkTextView) updated by a timer.  Since I couldn't find any timers in
Java-GNOME, I'm writing a simple one that just loops in a separate
thread.  Can this thread directly set the TextBuffer's text, or should
it conj an event to do it on the main thread?

Tom