From: David Espada <davinciSINSPAM@...>
Date: 2004-03-17T18:59:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [Ruby-gnome2] possible bug in memory management

El martes 16 de marzo, Laurent Sansonetti escribi�:
>>  I have found a reproducible bug, but I don't know if it is in Gtk2
>>  library, Ruby or Ruby-gtk2.
>> 
>>  You can execute this little program:
>
> If I understand correctly the problem is that you're executing an
> operation which takes some time in the main thread, which takes care of
> periodically refreshing the UI.  So it's quite normal if the program
> freezes.

 Example script freezes gui and I see that as normal. But problem is
 not that, but instead absolute program freeze.

> You should start the signal code in a separate thread.

 How can I do that? Threads from Ruby and from Gtk are compatible? Can
 I make a threading application free of freezes in gui (independently
 of the error I get now)?

 Thanks.

 							David