Is anywhere book or good manual, but better book about GTK+/glib, and multithreading in C/GTK+? I need to run a function in another thread than main window, and make it cancellable.
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Not recommended. glib uses an event loop, so do your processing in slices via g_timeout_*() or g_idle_*(), and just stop processing when you want to cancel it.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-06-23 08:52:06
+1
A:
GCancellable is part of the GIO I/O library. It provides a thread-safe way to simply send a "cancel yourself" message, and should be easy to implement in a thread of your own.
Simply create an instance of GCancellable using g_cancelablle_new(), and then either poll it periodically (using g_cancellable_is_cancelled()) in your thread, or use the signal support.
unwind
2010-06-23 08:59:36