On 28 May 2001 18:05:51 +0900, Patrik Sundberg wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have an application using ruby-gtk which wants to update a CList every X
> seconds. I have found no good way of doing this, using a thread causes crappy
> updates since the gtk mainloop and the interpreter thread scheduler doesn't
> share very nicely. Do anyone have a solution for this problem?
> 
> To me it seems like either the thread issue must somehow be resolved or some
> interface to the glib mainloop, timers, io events and possibly some other
> parts need to be designed. Is anyone working on this? Any thoughts on this
> topic?
> 
> (please keep me CC'ed since i am not subscribed to the list)
> 

Without being 100% sure about this, it do think you can/should use
Gtk.idle_add for that.

/Erik

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