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authorTor Lillqvist <tml@novell.com>2006-04-03 21:04:34 +0000
committerTor Lillqvist <tml@src.gnome.org>2006-04-03 21:04:34 +0000
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Mention that the Win32 backend should not be used from multiple threads.
2006-04-04 Tor Lillqvist <tml@novell.com> * gdk/tmpl/threads.sgml: Mention that the Win32 backend should not be used from multiple threads.
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@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ which protects all use of GTK+. That is, only one thread can use GTK+
at any given time.
</para>
<para>
+Unfortunately the above holds with the X11 backend only. With the
+Win32 backend, GDK calls should not be attempted from multiple threads
+at all.
+</para>
+<para>
You must call g_thread_init() and gdk_threads_init() before executing
any other GTK+ or GDK functions in a threaded GTK+ program.
</para>