Re: [Orbit-python-list] orb.run with threads

[Jason T. <ta...@li...>]

> As I look at this further i've begun to wonder how you can write a
> gtk/corba(ORBit) application when I need to call gtk_mainloop and
> orb.run but yet neither of them returns until the program wants to go
> of the evidence i've seen so fars indicates that python-orbit, and
> perhaps even orbit itself are not thread safe.

This is true.  ORBit-Python definitely isn't reentrant, and I don't think
ORBit is either.  (Rumor has it there is or was some work done in this area,
but I don't know what the status is.)

What you really want is Gnorba.  Basically, Gnorba (among other things)
provides a new main loop that handles both gtk+ and ORBit main loops.  This
is something I always wanted to do (and was partly my motivation for writing
ORBit-Python), but I never did get around to it.

I would certainly be pleased to see some work done in this area, and I'd
be happy to work on that (or help work on that) once I stabilize ORBit-Python
itself.  Check out: http://developer.gnome.org/arch/component/gnorba.html

Cheers,
Jason.