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

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

An alternative to a timer thread is to use gtk_timeout_add(), which
isn't one of the calls we support.  Is it okay if I just add that
support, or do I need to regenerate the file somehow?

Tom

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 11:28, Tom Ball wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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