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Hi all!
Well, my first post here in the forum concerns signal (message) creation and handling.
It is more or less a thread producer/consumer situation.

My application starts a thread that listens on a serial COM port (under WIN32).
As soon as data is received on the COM, the thread shall create a message/signal containing the received data.
Then the GTK main loop shall handle this signal and execute a callback function that processes the received data.

I could not find really much information on the web about such an issue.
What I think may work is a combination of g_signal_new, g_signal_connect, g_signal_emit... and the like. But I have no clue which function I need axactly and to which GObject all this shall be attached since there is no graphical widget like a button intended to handle this.
I thought a trivial problem - but (at least to me) it isn't... :-/
Any help, maybe a hint showing a direction would be great!

Thanks a lot,
klausix!

Hi,

The function g_idle_add() is often used to connect a signal in the main thread from another thread see http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html for more details. Just remember to return FALSE from the call-back function otherwise it will be called repeatedly.

As a note Glib is totally thread safe, but you still need to use locks if working on the same bit of data in more than one thread. GTK and GDK are thread aware, but not thread safe and calling it from more than one thread only works under X11 (with locks and plenty of care) and not WIN32.

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