gtk: Factor out a function to run a function on main thread

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755251

1 files changed, 71 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ext/gtk/gstgtkutils.c b/ext/gtk/gstgtkutils.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c730f0188
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/gtk/gstgtkutils.c
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * GStreamer
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Matthew Waters <matthew@centricular.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Thibault Saunier <tsaunier@gnome.org>
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * Library General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, write to the
+ * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
+ * Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+#include "gstgtkutils.h"
+
+struct invoke_context
+{
+  GThreadFunc func;
+  gpointer data;
+  GMutex lock;
+  GCond cond;
+  gboolean fired;
+
+  gpointer res;
+};
+
+static gboolean
+gst_gtk_invoke_func (struct invoke_context *info)
+{
+  g_mutex_lock (&info->lock);
+  info->res = info->func (info->data);
+  info->fired = TRUE;
+  g_cond_signal (&info->cond);
+  g_mutex_unlock (&info->lock);
+
+  return G_SOURCE_REMOVE;
+}
+
+gpointer
+gst_gtk_invoke_on_main (GThreadFunc func, gpointer data)
+{
+  GMainContext *main_context = g_main_context_default ();
+  struct invoke_context info;
+
+  g_mutex_init (&info.lock);
+  g_cond_init (&info.cond);
+  info.fired = FALSE;
+  info.func = func;
+  info.data = data;
+
+  g_main_context_invoke (main_context, (GSourceFunc) gst_gtk_invoke_func,
+      &info);
+
+  g_mutex_lock (&info.lock);
+  while (!info.fired)
+    g_cond_wait (&info.cond, &info.lock);
+  g_mutex_unlock (&info.lock);
+
+  g_mutex_clear (&info.lock);
+  g_cond_clear (&info.cond);
+
+  return info.res;
+}