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Improve threading documentation
This commit just adds a small section to the threading documentation about the deprecation. More is needed here, including a migration example.
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@ -448,10 +448,6 @@ gdk_init (int *argc, char ***argv)
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* which protects all use of GTK+. That is, only one thread can use GTK+
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* which protects all use of GTK+. That is, only one thread can use GTK+
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* at any given time.
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* at any given time.
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*
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* Unfortunately the above holds with the X11 backend only. With the
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* Win32 backend, GDK calls should not be attempted from multiple threads
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* at all.
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*
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* You must call gdk_threads_init() before executing any other GTK+ or
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* You must call gdk_threads_init() before executing any other GTK+ or
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* GDK functions in a threaded GTK+ program.
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* GDK functions in a threaded GTK+ program.
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*
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@ -653,6 +649,19 @@ gdk_init (int *argc, char ***argv)
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* }
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* }
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* </programlisting>
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* </programlisting>
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* </informalexample>
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* </informalexample>
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* Unfortunately, all of the above documentation holds with the X11
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* backend only. With the Win32 backend, GDK and GTK+ calls should not
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* be attempted from multiple threads at all. Combining the GDK lock
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* with other locks such as the Python global interpreter lock can be
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* complicated.
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* For these reason, the threading support has been deprecated in
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* GTK+ 3.6. Instead of calling GTK+ directly from multiple threads,
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* it is recommended to use g_idle_add(), g_main_context_invoke()
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* and similar functions to make these calls from the main thread
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* instead. The main thread is the thread which has called gtk_init()
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* and is running the GTK+ mainloop.
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*/
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