Fwd: Re: gdesksets/files/patch-libdesklets::Network.py

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:20, Franz Klammer wrote:
> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:55:35 +0100, Alexander Leidinger 
> > <Alexander at Leidinger.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:35:51 -0600
> >> Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> > some kown problems:
> >>> > - to make it run you need to activate libkse in /etc/libmap.conf
> >>>
> >>> Bummer, looks like you will have to add explain in the pkg-message 
> >>> about
> >>> that libkse is required otherwise it won't work with libc_r.
> >>
> >>
> >> Has anyone contacted the threads people? There's either a bug in libkse
> >> or in libc_r.
> >
> >
> > No, I haven't.. I didn't know there has any bug in libkse or libc_r 
> > that cause gdesklets not work. Well, I don't know how to explain and 
> > show there's bug in libc_r or libkse. I just explain about gdesklets 
> > work a little on libkse, but not on libc_r? Also, show the code of 
> > SysInfo or Weather's thread?
> >
> i think i've found the problem. could someone approve this?
> to make it run, please change gdesklets/sensor/Sensor.py in this way:

That seems reasonable to me.  C applications need to do
gdk_threads_init() before using threads.

Joe

> 
>    #
>     # Adds and runs a new thread.
>     #
>     def _add_thread(self, threadfunction, *args):
> 
>         gtk.threads_init()       <== ADD THIS LINE
> 
>         # the thread should not start before setup is complete, therefore
>         # we are using the GTK idle handler
>         def run_thread(threadfunction, args):
>             thread.start_new_thread(threadfunction, args)
> 
>         gtk.idle_add(run_thread, threadfunction, args)
> 
> 
> franz
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Mezz
> >
> >> Bye,
> >> Alexander.
> >
> >
> >
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