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Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer comes with an AgsThread object. It is organized as a tree structure. The API provides many functions to work with it. These threads do the ::clock event where all threads synchronize.
The AgsTaskThread runs synchronized as well but is going to be waited after syncing to run all tasks. The AgsTask signal ::launch runs asynchronous exclusively. So the task thread implements AgsAsyncQueue interface. Every thread tree shall have at toplevel a thread implementing AgsMainLoop interface.
There is an object call AgsThreadPool serving prelaunched threads. It returns on pull AgsReturnableThread instances. They can be used with a callback ::safe-run.
There is a interface to implement by your application context. Thus the AgsConcurrencyProvider interface is used. It has some common get/set functions to do basic multi-threaded work by well defined objects.
AgsMainLoop should be implemented by toplevel threads. Within a thread tree this is the topmost element. It has various get and set methods you would expect. ::set_tic and ::get_tic is used for synchronization purpose as well ::set_last_sync and ::get_last_sync. ::get_async_queue should return an instance implementing AgsAsyncQueue eg. AgsTaskThread. ::get_application_context returns the AgsApplicationContext.
To control the AgsThread::clock signal AgsMainLoop's methods are going to be invoked. The involved functions are:
void ags_main_loop_set_tic(AgsMainLoop*, guint)
guint ags_main_loop_get_tic(AgsMainLoop*)
void ags_main_loop_set_last_sync(AgsMainLoop*, guint)
guint ags_main_loop_get_last_sync(AgsMainLoop*)
The main loop specifies some signals like ::interrupt, ::monitor and ::change-frequency. They are all related to realtime behavior of an application. Assumed you have a thread you want to run within the thread tree, but it is not mandatory to run it. With these functions you can determine if you shall pause your thread during ::interrupt signal. How many time you are allowed to consume or running at all, can be concluded by using ::monitor. In order to get notified about modified refreshing rate of your thread, listen to ::change-frequency signal.
The interface provides some other function pointers. If you want to provide AgsTaskThread
to your application, use void ags_main_loop_set_async_queue(AgsMainLoop*, GObject*)
and GObject* ags_main_loop_get_async_queue(AgsMainLoop*).
As it shall be implemented by AGS_TYPE_THREAD subtypes, this parent object provides a mutex to properly lock the object. You should obtain the pthread_mutex_t pointer by accessing its field:
#include <glib.h>
#include <glib-object.h>
#include <ags/libags.h>
AgsThread *thread;
pthread_mutex_t *thread_mutex;
thread = ags_thread_new(NULL);
/* get object mutex */
thread_mutex = AGS_THREAD_GET_OBJ_MUTEX(thread);