Re: understanding GtkSourceView internals

2008/7/30 Paolo Borelli <[email protected]>:
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>> But the idle_worker functions call gdk_threads_(enter|leave) so it
>> seems there is some multi-threading as well. What exactly is running
>> in a separate thread?

> No, there is no work being done in threads.
> Taking the lock in idle handlers that interact with gtk is just good
> programming practice since the program using gtksourceview may be using
> threads that interact with gtk concurrently with the idle handlers in
> the main thread.

I thought that idle functions are guaranteed to be called from the
thread that is running the main loop (which should be the thread that
runs gdk/gtk too)??

thanks for your answers,
   Olivier