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From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol)
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Subject: Re: GtkAda and tasking how to?.
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:07:10 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 7 May 2001 07:34:38 +0200, Per Sandbergs wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the example i may end up in going this way but what i realy want
> is to make the
> GUI thread safe since i am deling with a server program that previos took
> all commands form a socket connection aand just printet to standard output
> And what i want to do is to redirect Output to the GUI and still be able to
> control the GUI.

Perhaps I misunderstand you, but isn't it better then to put the GUI in
a separate thread so that if something goes wrong you can start up a new
GUI thread when you detect that the old one has died?

> But what i am getting after a while is
>     Gdk-ERROR **: file gdkgc-win32.c: line 875 (gdk_gc_predraw): assertion
> failed: (data->xgc == NULL)
> It think it os a timing/race problem since the time the program runs seem to
> be random.

Have you tried it on Linux?

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