[Gtk-sharp-list] cannot find Runtime.DispatchService.GuiDispatch

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 04:45 -0800, dkarantonis wrote:
> Hi,
> i would like to create a secondary thread that updates the GUI, so i read
> that i have to use the Runtime.DispatchService.GuiDispatch(). The problem is
> that i cannot find it. I am using Mono 2 and gtk-sharp 2.12.00.
> Any ideas?

Have you looked at
<http://www.mono-project.com/Responsive_Applications>?

I'd recommend using Gtk.Application.Invoke to have the background thread
push GUI mod'ing code to the main loop.

static void ThreadRoutine ()
  {
        LargeComputation ();
        Gtk.Application.Invoke (delegate {
              label.Text = "Done";
        });
  }

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