[Libsigcx-main] Re: [gtkmm] libsigcx and gtkmm 2.4

[Christer P. <pa...@no...>]

Hi Martin!

Martin Schulze wrote:
> 
> Which classes from libSigCX do you need? At some time I had some
> random thoughts about libSigCX & sigc++-2.0 - Some things should be
> much easier to implement with the new API.
> 

My app depends rather heavily on SigCX::GtkDispatcher and 
SigCX::ThreadTunnel to do cross-thread signalling. I also pass around a 
lot of signal arguments by reference, so I also depend on beeing able to 
have fully synchronous signals.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to extend the existing Glib::Dispatcher 
mechanism to provide the functionality of SigCX? IMO, Glib::Dispatcher 
is rather useless in its current form, and yet, cross-thread signalling 
is definitely one of the, if not _the_, most convenient and elegant way 
of doing multithreaded gtkmm programming...

--
Christer Palm